American Business
The main branches of the U.S. Economy include oil and gas extraction and refining, steel, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food and light industry, banking and finance, information technology.
Major U.S. trading partners: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, the European Union. 48% of U.S. government securities, according to the company Bridgewater Associates, are now owned by foreigners. 24% of the corporate debt and 22% of the shares of American corporations total $ 8 trillion. (The sum is almost equal to the annual U.S. gross domestic product).
Bureau of Statistics of Labor Market United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics) predicts the development of the labor market in the United States over the next ten years. According to their forecast, the United States most of all will be in demand for occupations such as: teachers, computer specialists (almost all of specialization), nurses, truck drivers, accountants, managers of marketing and sales, auto, police, social workers, and engineers. Dismissals also threaten agricultural workers, telephone operators, bank cashiers, employees of insurance companies, tailors, butchers, sellers and projectionists.
In recent years, the unemployment rate in the United States did not exceed 4-6%, which is average compared to other countries in the world. The average weekly working hours in the United States are about 39.6 hours with an average of 2 weeks vacation per year.
According to statistics, the highest wages earned in the U.S. are workers in the state of Connecticut (average $ 40 640 per year), the lowest - the state of Mississippi ($ 20 993 per year). Among the states with the highest salaries include California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
Three out of four jobs in the United States creates a small business. Small companies employ about 50% of working Americans. Small business provides more than 50% of all innovations in the economy. 20 million Americans owns their own businesses, and one in ten of them became a businessman in captivity meaning he had to create his own company after he lost his job. The vast majority of these companies offer their services to individuals, not entities. Only 2% of those businesspeople achieve tangible success after the first two years.
There are many interesting shopping quirks about the American public. 45% of Americans interviewed by the research group Zogby said that they “always refused to buy a product if the manufacturer belongs to the poor preservation of the environment or has a bad reputation.” In doing so, according to the same poll, the choice of goods 58% of respondents preferred were because of quality and price. 8% evaluate the reputation of the manufacturer in the field of ecology and relationships with their employees, 7% - the leaders of social activities, 5%, take into account all these factors, and 10% - are guided by different reason.