An Excite@Home shutdown would strand 45 percent of the cable modem users in North America, disrupting small-business owners, telecommuters and even students, since many cable companies have donated high-speed data lines to schools.
According to a study of veterans and vet benefits:
Despite the fact that recently discharged service members are trained, skilled, disciplined, dedicated and drug-free, Principi said, almost 20 percent of those aged 20 to 24 are unemployed -- a rate higher than their nonveteran counterparts. ( This gets lengthy )