Survey: Educational Endowments Up in 2004
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Fiscal 2004 was the best investment year for colleges, universities and other educational institutions since the stock market downturn, according to a survey released Thursday.
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Educational institutions worldwide will increase spending on open-source software and services through 2012, survey says.
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The productivity of American workers, the critical component for rising living standards, increased by 4.1 percent in 2004, capping a remarkable three-year period in which worker efficiency climbed at the fastest pace in a half century.
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The amount of money England's secondary schools spend on ICT has risen by a third in a year.
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Increasing numbers of graduates has not reduced the financial advantages of getting a degree, says an international report.
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Employers watched their health insurance premiums jump 11.2 percent in 2004, lower than last year&#39;s hike of nearly 14 percent but about five times the rate of inflation and the increase in workers&#39; earnings, according to a closely watched annual survey of
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Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance increased an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, marking the fourth consecutive year of a double-digit increase and outpacing the growth in wages and inflation by wide margins, according to a survey released
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WASHINGTON -- Indiana workers and those in 34 other states saw health insurance premiums rise nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years, a study based on federal data shows.
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A growing number of endowments at the nationâs independent schools have become so big that trustees have hired full-time money managers.
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New facilities and competition for top professors have costs soaring vastly higher than inflation.
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U.S. spending on health care rose  7.7 percent to 1.7 trillion in 2003, outpacing overall economic  growth by nearly 3 percentage points, according to an annual  government report released on Tuesday.
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Students across the board are facing tuition fee increases of up to ten percent, which the University blames on a lack of Government funding.
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Harvard University said Tuesday its endowment rose by 16.7 percent to $29.2 billion in its latest fiscal year, extending its longtime growth despite recent changes in management.
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U.S. personal incomes rose 1.5  percent in the second quarter of 2004, the fastest pace of  growth in more than three years as income gains sped up in 33  states, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday.
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Two top portfolio managers at Harvard Management Company each earned more than $25 million in fiscal 2004 for having delivered one of the best returns among all university endowments in the country.
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$438 million is raised by Israeli technology firms - the highest level in three years. The amount raised in the first three quarters of 2004 reflects an increase of 43 percent over the same period in 2003.
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From 2003 to 2005, the increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans.