“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.” YearsTodaySchoolAmericaEducationMillionsHigh SchoolAdultsPopulationFinishedQuartersMichigan Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.” ThinkingKnowsValuesTheoryAdultsFunctionPopulationPublishingPublishers Author:Maxwell Perkins
“Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.” MenYearsBookLastsCompanyEvolutionAdultsThirdsFortunePopulationChiefsJournalistProportionExecutivesTallOfficersCentsLast YearCeoSurveysBlinkChief Executives Author:Daniel Finkelstein
“Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.” ShouldLiteratureBornHalfGroupsAdultsPopulationProportionRequirementsCitizenshipHispanicProficiency Author:Linda Chavez
“It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.” PeopleProblemAmericaYoungAdultsRatePopulationHeavyRisingStatisticsObesityPublic HealthHealth Problems Author:William J. Clinton
“The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.” MenChildrenBookStatesOrderReadingHouseInternetFitExerciseMen And WomenAdultsPopulationInnocenceWelfareFree SpeechPigsShieldsMichiganJuvenileRuggedGrown ManGeneral WelfareIncidence Author:Felix Frankfurter
“Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.” PeopleWellsAbleTroubleEvolutionAdultsPopulationMilk Author:Carl Zimmer
“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.” NeedsYearsJobsAmericaHoursNumbersClassMillionsWeekMiddleRight NowLowsPercentAdultsOrganizationRatePopulationMiddle ClassMinimumGood JobNotableDeliveringPaychecksFull Time Jobs Author:Jim Clifton
“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsKidsAttitudeWatchesFivePolicyAdultsResourcesVotePopulationAgencyTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsAttitudePolicyAdultsPopulationTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.” PeopleFirstsIdeasRightsAdultsBillsPopulationAmendmentsFirst AmendmentBill Of Rights Author:Nat Hentoff
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.” IfsKnowsWayKindHas BeensMatterFactsUseProblemTodayToo MuchDogMinesApproachAdultsTrainSticksPopulationEducatedLiftsSelectMatter Of Fact Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.” LastsChoicesEvilSocialExampleAdultsPopulationScalesSmokingMassiveQuartersEngineeringRecallsInterventionPrivate LifeExtremismTobaccoBansProhibitionCrusadesSocial EngineeringLife And ChoicesSocial Evils Author:Charles Orville Whitley