Not exact matches
More than half of
working -
age adults believe they have the ability to start their own company, according to a new
report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which surveyed people
working in 60 countries around the world.
«When communities enable
aging adults to
work, learn, volunteer, and participate socially and economically, the benefits accrue to younger people and the broader society as well,» the
report reads.
While
working - class young adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»» reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working - Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncer
working - class young
adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»»
reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short:
Working - Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncer
Working - Class Adulthood in an
Age of Uncertainty.
The event comes as it was found by Money Advice Service that at least 18.5 million
working age adults have «poor or low» numeracy levels, and economist
reported that poor numeracy costs the UK up to # 20.2 billion a year.
Forty - five per cent of
adults between the
ages of 20 and 35
working in STEM related roles believe that subjects they studied in school are useless when it comes to
working, a new
report shows.
As The New York Times
reported last July, by the year 2050, China will have 1.6
working -
age adults to support every person over 60, compared with 7.7 in 1975.
The Commonwealth Fund found that in 2007, 41 percent of
working -
age adults had accrued medical debt or
reported a problem paying their medical bills.8 Similarly, a Federal Reserve study found that the credit
reports of about 15.7 percent of middle - income people and nearly 23 percent of low - income people included collection accounts for medical debt.9 The vast majority of these individuals had lower credit scores as a result.
According to Nielsen's newest 360 Gaming
Report, which is based on online surveys completed by more than 2,000 teens /
adults over
age 13, 37 percent of all US gamers have heard of at least one VR / AR device, but on an individual basis, the three VR headsets currently on the market or hitting the market later this year have a fair amount of
work to do in spreading awareness.
Persons with disabilities
report experiencing the following employment barriers: (1) need for reduced or modified hours; (2) need for workplace accommodation which is greater the more severe the disability; (3) barriers to finding
work or advancing in employment; (4) lack of training and / or experience; (5) perceived discrimination: Matthew Till, Tim Leonard, Sebastian Yeung & Gradon Nicholls, A Profile of the Labour Market Experiences of
Adults with Disabilities among Canadians
aged 15 years or older (December 3, 2015): online, Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015005-eng.pdf.