Did you know?

• About one in every eight people, or 12.4 percent of the population, is an older American (Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Statistics)


• One in seven Asian Americans has a master's, PhD, medical or law degree (Source: DiversityInc.com)


• On average, adults with disabilities spend twice as much time on the Internet each week (20 hours) as their non-disabled counterparts (Source: The Harris Poll #30, “How the Internet is improving the lives of Americans with disabilities”)


• Women continue to be over-represented in administrative support and service positions (Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Statistics)


• African-American women age 16 and over are more likely than their white counterparts to participate in the labor force (Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Statistics)


• Forty-seven years after the Brown Vs. Board Of Education ruling ended school segregation, two-thirds of minority pupils still attend schools that are predominantly minority (Source: Minority MBA magazine)


• The nation's wealthiest school districts spend 56 percent more per pupil than the poorest districts (Source: Minority MBA magazine)


• Seventeen percent of all Latinos were in management and professional positions in 2002 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)


• Twenty-one percent of gay and lesbian households have income greater than $100,000 a year (Source: gfn.com)


• Same-sex couples who live in Vermont and are in civil unions can receive the 300-plus benefits available under state law that go to married couples (Source: Human Rights Campaign, hrc.org)

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