Despite its size, China is a lovely country. Over the last three decades, it’s seen a tremendous amount of growth. Its ailing economy of the 1990s has undergone a radical transformation over time. Economic prosperity and job advancement chances are plentiful in the country today. As a result...
Bulgarian and Macedonian housewives observed several customs to ensure prosperity and to keep their homes free of dangers. For example, they used cakes to rid their homes of evil spirits. On Mice Day, October 27, they would spread mud over the threshold and hearth to "muddle over" the mice...
Broadband internet is vital for the expansion of economic opportunity and prosperity for all Americans. CAN believes a lack of broadband denies access to the full promise of the American Dream for too many of our communities. Americans without broadband internet need the resources required to afford...
Since the overwhelming majority of the first generations of Mexican immigrants moved to areas already populated predominantly by people of their heritage and worked side-by-side with these individuals in the same jobs, the need for them to learn more than rudimentary English was of minor importance...
Financial Literacy for Black and African Americans TheTIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index (P-Fin Index), a survey that measures financial literacy, revealed African Americans demonstrated a low level of financial literacy. The P-Fin Index showed that Black Americans only answered 38% of per...
Thus, these "good times" muted the sense of threat experienced in the dominant group by the demands for equality made by the civil rights movement. Third, some of the economic prosperity found its way into African American communities and increased their pool of economic and political resources....
Family size has been decreasing as education and prosperity have increased. EDUCATION The literacy rate in Bosnia prior to the civil war of 1992 was 92 percent. Education through the eighth grade was compulsory for both boys and girls, after which a student could opt for either a vocational ...
The tourism sector grew consistently over the subsequent decades, and by the early 21st century it accounted for the largest single portion of the state’s economy. A land boom in the early 20th century focused entrepreneurs on real estate and construction, though sustained prosperity from those ...