The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) awarded $75,000 to each of five local ABE sites to enhance efforts to provide postsecondary education and support services that help adults become employed in occupational sectors important to local economies.
In India, close to 25 per cent of the people had full-time employment between 2008 and 2012, which is low compared with BRICS peers. Russia was followed by Brazil, where the median per capita income was $2,247, followed by China ($1,786) and South Africa ($1,217).
Partly, it can be explained by China's cheaper workers: The average hourly wage for Chinese manufacturing workers is less than a tenth that of their average U.S. counterparts, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.ORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly presented the average productivity of Taiwanese and German factory workers as $1.03 per hour and $66.60 per hour, respectively.