Perhaps this is because the average American can cover the cost of a computer with one month's salary, while the average person in Bangladesh needs approximately eight years of income to do the same. The current total IT workforce in the United States exceeds 10 million. This year alone, employers will create a demand for more than 1.6 million new IT workers. The lack of IT workers trained to take these jobs means that one job in every dozen will be vacant. More than 12,000 web sites are added to the Internet each day.
Women earn more than half of all bachelor s degrees.
Literacy Workers without a high school degree earn less than 25 percent of those who have a bachelor's degree. The best indicator of a child's success in school is a mother who has a high school diploma. A total of 14.2 million adults have participated in the GED Testing Program since 1949. The average GED test-taker in 1999 was 24.6 years old. Approximately 67 percent of test-takers reported having completed tenth grade or higher before leaving school.