Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $2.387 trillion; per capita $37,300. Real growth rate: 1.8%. Inflation: 2%. Unemployment: 7.2%. Arable land: 24.88%. Agriculture: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish. Labor force:...
Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $2.387 trillion; per capita $37,300. Real growth rate: 1.8%. Inflation: 2%. Unemployment: 7.2%. Arable land: 24.88%. Agriculture: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish. Labor force:...
The separate identities of each of the United Kingdom's constituent parts are also reflected in their respective governmental structures. Up until the recent devolution of power to Scotland and Wales, a cabinet minister (the Secretary of State for Wales) handled Welsh affairs at the national level...
Literacy rate:99% (2003 est.) Economic summary:GDP/PPP(2013 est.): $2.387 trillion; per capita $37,300.Real growth rate:1.8%.Inflation:2%.Unemployment:7.2%.Arable land:24.88%.Agriculture:cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish.Labor force:30.15 million (2013 es...
“We will be minimizing the roles of local and State education officials; we should recognize that the States are responsible for the education policies of the children in the is country.” RepresentativeShirley Chisholm(D-NY)[8] Conservative Proposals ...
The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 provided federal financial support to state universities. Many land-grant colleges and state universities were established through gifts of federal land to the states for the support of higher education. Financial support was extended to the universities and this in...
Population growth rate: 0.883% (2008 est.) Languages: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) note:Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii Death rate: ...
of levees and railroads. Hayes’s inauguration marked, for practical purposes, the restoration of “home rule” for the South—i.e., that the North would no longer interfere in Southern elections to protect African Americans and that the Southern whites would again take control of their state ...
state, and—depending on chance, talent, political expediency, and a host of other factors—higher office. Because American elections are now more heavily candidate-centered rather than party-centered and are less susceptible to control by party bosses, wealthy candidates have often been able tocirc...
By the end of war there were 43 newspapers that continued to reflect the state of affairs of the nation. At the time the need to ensure freedom of press was felt and thus came the Bill of Rights in 1791 – the first amendment in the US constitution that protected freedom of press. ...