Studies in the USA indicate that the world's electrical consumption is set to rise to 30,000 billion kWh by 2030 from 15.4 billion kWh in 2006. Governments and utilities today need to plan to supply large amounts of electrical energy efficiently, inexpensively and with minimal impact on the environment.
The UK government has been steadily increasing its security budgets in the face of growing threats to national and civil security. Recent terror attacks combined with upcoming events such as the 2012 London Olympics are leading the government to prioritise safeguarding the country against threats of this nature.
The study found that 32.1% of surveyed companies with 1,000 or more employees hire staff to read or analyze the contents of outbound email. 38.8% of larger companies surveyed (those with more than 20,000 employees) employ staff for this purpose. Additionally, 16.9% of companies surveyed employ staff whose primary or exclusive job responsibility is to read or otherwise analyze email content.
A substantial majority of Croatian citizens say they are happy with their family life and personal relationships. However, citizens of this candidate country for EU membership are pessimistic about the future and dissatisfied with the low income levels, regional differences in economic development, high long-term unemployment and the quality of public services.
Bankrate, Inc. published the findings of its second annual poll questioning Americans on their emergency savings accounts. Bankrate found that over half of Americans polled (54 percent) are not equipped with an emergency savings fund (equal to three months living expenses).
In June, employers took 1,219 mass layoff actions, seasonally adjusted,as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported.
U.S. companies continued to attract significant venture capital investment in the second quarter of 2007, as venture financings reached $7.4 billion, an increase of 8% over the same period last year, according to the Quarterly Venture Capital Report released today by Ernst & Young LLP and Dow Jones VentureOne. The quarterly deal count also rose 8% to reach 717 deals, the highest deal volume since 2001.
Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 106.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were $690 in the second quarter of 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. This was 4.7 percent higher than a year earlier compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
Marked differences exist between EU Member States in the total number of days’ leave they offer workers, with some countries having almost three-and-a-half working weeks’ more time off than others. Research findings published from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) show that workers in Sweden have 42 days of annual leave and public holidays combined, in contrast to workers in Estonia, who have just 26 days. In addition, the length of the working week and annual hours worked vary greatly from one country to another.
Real average weekly earnings rose by 0.5 percent from May to June after seasonal adjustment, according to preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.
