Individual Development Accounts: Policies To Build Savings And Assets For The Poor
White Papers Thus the bottom 60 percent of the nation collectively possesses less than 5 percent of the nation's wealth. Broadening the ownership of assets - through IDAs, children's savings accounts, and targeted tax subsidies for wealth accumulation - may...
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Nature's Ireland Screensaver
Downloads Sculpted millions of years ago by the advance and retreat of vast shields of ice, the Emerald Isle harbors a wealth of wildlife among its craggy mountains, fog-shrouded coastlines, steep gorges, and vast networks of inland waterways
[March 15, 2006, 5:43]
Survey Finds PCs More Popular Than Mobiles
News The Wealth of the Nation report -- conducted by Mintel -- found that we are twice as likely to depend on our computers than our mobiles. Just 12 percent of the 2000 people surveyed regarded mobile phones as an essential item, compared to 20 percent...
[February 9, 2000, 12:21]
Broadband Growth Fails To Measure Up
News They may have captured more customers, but they are presumably sharing the wealth by having an outside partner. The nation's largest cable network reported 350,000 new cable broadband subscribers, compared with Time Warner Cable's disappointing 170...
[August 4, 2003, 12:20]
Windows 'cheaper Than Linux'
Talkback One percent or less of the population is actually producing the wealth for the nation. What many studies fail to report is the rising number of people who started their training in the Linux/Unix environment.
[September 25, 2003, 15:59]
Both Are To Blame
Talkback According to a survey only 40 percent of american students manage to pass their grade 7 exams.Americans were placed along with barbados in the recently concluded math olympiad.And IT contributes only 2.5 percent to our GDP.Our real strengths lie...
[July 6, 2006, 15:18]
Both Are To Blame
Talkback According to a survey only 40 percent of american students manage to pass their grade 7 exams.Americans were placed along with barbados in the recently concluded math olympiad.And IT contributes only 2.5 percent to our GDP.Our real strengths lie...
[July 6, 2006, 15:18]
Al Gore Joins Apple Board
News Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organisation in the world -- the United States government," Jobs said. Apple was criticised in a Business Week article last year as having one of the...
[March 20, 2003, 8:12]
Oiling The Wheels Of Education
News Even by oil-cartel standards, Qatar's wealth is extraordinary. Although Qatar has suffered only a few attacks and the nation has not produced any known terrorist leaders, the threat hangs over the country.
[January 23, 2006, 12:20]
Politicians 'must Start Chatting Online'
News It is perhaps worrying that the Hansard Society discovered a clear split between those members of the public who want to see more e-politics, and those who do not -- with the clear difference between the two groups being wealth.
[October 31, 2001, 13:13]
