The World Bank looked at a sample drawn from 52m migrants in 20 rich countries in 2000 and found that 36% of them had a college education, a sharp rise on a decade earlier.

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So the power of the technical community is organizing itself in other ways, which I covered in my earlier post on the rise of developeronomics.

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Then MPs debate options for changing their sitting hours - the most radical suggestion emerging from the Procedure Select Committee is for the House to sit an hour earlier on Thursdays, at 9.30am, and then rise an hour earlier - the aim being to allow MPs from Scotland and far-flung areas of the UK to leave a little earlier for their constituencies.

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There were 59, 346 new cars registered during the month, a rise of 7.3% on a year earlier, while sales of smaller cars rose by a third, the SMMT said.

BBC: UK car sales in first rise for 14 months, SMMT says

The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence: As I pointed out in an earlier post on Forbes, although Apple was the company that first got everyone excited about artificial intelligence (AI) on mobile phones when they launched Siri, they have fallen way behind in this area and show no signs of progress.

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The prospects for a second stimulus package (on top of the tax rebates sent out earlier this year) will rise, as a result of the jobs data.

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It said this was a 36% rise on the 24, 872 approvals in the second quarter, and 17% higher than a year earlier.

BBC: Builders at work on a house in Kent

Those stimuli may persist at near current levels in future years due to chronic high unemployment, as noted in earlier Insights, but seems unlikely to rise at the rates they did since the recession began due to their effects on the already massive federal deficits.

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