Helight, for example, made in new york. we want diversity always in the tech sectors. one of the exciting things is new york city is probably the most diverse tech sector. the start-up genome report showed that we have more female founders in new york city than any other city in the world. digital is not just about the tech sector on its own. you wantly all of these various large sectors, many housed in new york city, will become digital. as jared said, it s the digital age. more than half of the world s population are women. they re coming online, that s more options, more choices, more independence, obviously there s challenges for when you have a smartphone, options are good. maggie is a highly wired digital proponent. i am, and we will end on that note. maggie is wrapping the segment. rachel, jared, thank you so much the new digital age is on sale
How much of a dent could it make? significantly. when you look at who s hiring and growing, looking at china, india, germany, the firm that is are hiring, this is really our best hope and, you know, i think i care about this because it promises hope for those who are underemployed and unemployed and we should do better. are there particular kinds of skills you need or i guess degrees that you need? because we were talking yesterday about some of the areas where there are some possibilities for job growth, a lot of tech sectors. so that s sometimes requiring specific kinds of skills. is it broader in green industri industries? it is. part of this is what kind of industry we want the united states to be. when s promising about a green job is that it actually allows people to make things again. right? we used to be a my that manufactured and had jobs that people support the families with high school diplomas and then an
You to listen to the president with the chairman of the fed, ben bernanke, trying to say, look, times are rough but we re going to get through this. i think in our discussions we share the view that the economy is strengthening, that we are into recovery, that it s actually led by some interesting sectors like manufacturing that we haven t seen in quite some time. tech sectors are strong. he s almost trying to will it to get better and you can t blame him. one interesting thing about this number as someone who follows numbers, you have a fairly positive trend line for the past couple months. it s interesting to see if this is a blip. as a pollster, we look for trend lines. this is fairly solid upward. is this a phenomenon or a blip out of nowhere? we ll see that in the next few days. other interesting part, some of the public polls in the last two, three weeks, you see an increase of a number of americans feeling optimistic about the economy over the last couple weeks. so to see if this is just a bump