Hillary Clinton - Fundraising Statistics & Info for 2008 Presidential Race

The following fundraising statistics and contributor data for the Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee were taken from the most recent Federal Election Commission quarterly report, which is as of March 31, 2008.

Cash on hand, at March 31, 2008 - $29,666,453

Unpaid campaign debts, at March 31, 2008 - $19,480,893

Contributions, net total to March 31, 2008 - $172,767,416

Contributions for Jan 2008 - $14 million Contributions for Feb 2008 - $34 million Contributions for Mar 2008 - $20 million Contributions for Apr 2008 - $21 million

Celebrity-Activist Contributors

Deepak Chopra - $4,600 Danny DeVito - $2,300 Fran Drescher - $2,300 Joely Fisher - $4,600 Tom Hanks - $2,300 Hugh Hefner - $2,300 Billie Jean King - $4,600 Tobey Maguire - $4,600 Marla Maples - $1,000 Rosie O'Donnell - $2,300 Rhea Perlman - $2,300 Anne Rice - $4,600 Pauly Shore - $1,000 Martha Stewart - $4,600 Ben Stiller - $4,600 Lily Tomlin - $2,000 Rita Wilson - $2,300

Top Employers of Contributors

D.L.A. Piper, law firm Cablevision, cable broadband services Kirkland & Ellis, law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, law firm Proskauer Rose, law firm Perry Capital, hedge fund investments Credit Suisse, financial services Morgan Stanley, investment banker Cushman & Wakefield, real estate investments The Clinton Foundation

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Canadian Crime Statistics

This is a selection of highlights from Statistics Canada reports on Canadian crime statistics and homicide statistics in recent years. These statistics capture general trends in crime across the country.

The Canadian crime statistics are from annual reports by Statistics Canada using data collected using the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. The UCR Survey collects information on criminal incidents reported to police services across the country, and substantiated by the police, using a standardized set of crime categories and definitions developed with the co-operation of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.

The homicide statistics are also published in annual reports by Statistics Canada and use data collected by the Homicide Survey. When a homicide becomes known to the police, questionnaires are filled in by the police service and sent to Statistics Canada. New information is submitted to Statistics Canada as it becomes available.

The number of homicides in Canada went down significantly in 2010, according to Statistics Canada's Homicide Survey. The drop in the homicide rate which was at its lowest level in 40 years was mainly due to a decline in homicides in the western provinces, especially in British Columbia. Even with the declines in the west, the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan still had homicide rates double the national average.

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Canadian Workforce Statistics

Analysis by Statistics Canada of the Census 2001 statistics on the population of Canada shows that the three factors that had a major impact on the Canadian workforce over the last decade were new immigrants, the demand for highly skilled workers, and the aging population in Canada.

Canada Census figures show that in May 2001 there were 15.6 million people in the workforce in Canada, an increase of 9.5 percent from the decade before.

Census figures show that in May 2001, about 20 percent of the Canadian workforce, or approximately 3.2 million people, was born outside Canada and that a large part of the growth in the Canadian workforce was due to new immigrants. A total of 977,500 immigrants who arrived in Canada in the 1990s were part of the Canadian workforce in 2001, making up about 70 percent of the growth in the workforce for the decade. Over half of these workers were in Ontario.

However, statistics from the census also show that there is a gap between employment prospects for immigrants and those for Canadian-born workers. The gap first appeared during the recession years of the early 1990s, and continued when the economy recovered in the later half of the decade. In 2001, the unemployment rate for new immigrants aged 25 to 44 was double that of Canadian-born workers.

Highly skilled jobs led the growth in the workforce in Canada in the 1990s.

By May 2001, 2.5 million of the 15.6 million people in the Canadian workforce were in occupations that required a university education - a 33 percent increase from the decade before and a growth rate triple the growth rate for the Canadian workforce as a whole.

In contrast, skilled occupations - those requiring a community college diploma or apprenticeship training - grew at only 3.3 percent, or a third of the growth rate for the workforce as a whole in Canada. The number of people in some construction trades decreased by as much as 40 to 60 percent.

Occupations requiring a high school diploma or less had a growth rate of 5.4 percent, well below the growth rate of the total Canadian workforce.

The Canadian workforce is also aging. The average age of Canadian workers rose from 37.1 years in 1991 to an average age of 39 years in 2001. About 15 percent of the workforce was within 10 years of retirement age at the end of the last decade, and projections are that by 2011 nearly a fifth of baby-boomers in Canada will be at least 61.

Added to this is the fact that birth rates in Canada have been low for the last 30 years, so fewer young people are entering the workforce to replace those getting close to retirement.

This aging of the Canadian workforce raises the potential for shortages in some highly skilled occupations, and the likelihood that Canada will need to continue to turn to immigration as a source of highly skilled workers.

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Statistics Languages in Canada

Canada is increasingly becoming a multilingual society according to language statistics from the 2001 Census of Canada. Statistics Canada says that while most people in Canada speak English or French at home, one out of every six reported having a mother tongue other than English or French.

Statistics Canada says that more than 100 languages were reported in the 2001 Census question on mother tongue. Mother tongue is defined by Statistics Canada as the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood. The fastest growth comes in Asian and Middle East language groups.

According to the 2001 Census, nine out of 10 people in Canada still speak either the English or French languages at home. All the other languages reported as mother tongue are not spoken at home as frequently. Only 10 percent spoke a language other than English or French at home, compared to 18 percent who reported another language as their mother tongue.

The 2001 Census total of anglophones, those who report their mother tongue as English, was 17.5 million, or 59.1 percent of the population of Canada, down from 59.8 percent at the last census in 1996.

The 2001 Census total of francophones, those who report their mother tongue as French, was 6.8 million, or 22.9 percent of the population, down from 23.5 percent in 1996.

In contrast, the 2001 Census total of allophones, those who report a mother tongue other than English or French, was 5.3 million, or 18 percent of the population, up from 16.6 percent in the 1996 census.

Chinese is the third most common mother tongue in Canada, with the number of people reporting Chinese as their mother tongue at a total of 872,400. That's approximately 2.9 percent of the total population of Canada, up about 0.3 percent since 1996.

The other most common languages reported as mother tongue were Italian German Punjabi Spanish

Cree was the Aboriginal language reported as a mother tongue by the highest number of people in Canada at 80,000. The Inuktitut language was claimed as the mother tongue by 29,700 and Ojibway by 23,500.

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Statistics Languages in Canada

Canada is increasingly becoming a multilingual society according to language statistics from the 2001 Census of Canada. Statistics Canada says that while most people in Canada speak English or French at home, one out of every six reported having a mother tongue other than English or French.

Statistics Canada says that more than 100 languages were reported in the 2001 Census question on mother tongue. Mother tongue is defined by Statistics Canada as the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood. The fastest growth comes in Asian and Middle East language groups.

According to the 2001 Census, nine out of 10 people in Canada still speak either the English or French languages at home. All the other languages reported as mother tongue are not spoken at home as frequently. Only 10 percent spoke a language other than English or French at home, compared to 18 percent who reported another language as their mother tongue.

The 2001 Census total of anglophones, those who report their mother tongue as English, was 17.5 million, or 59.1 percent of the population of Canada, down from 59.8 percent at the last census in 1996.

The 2001 Census total of francophones, those who report their mother tongue as French, was 6.8 million, or 22.9 percent of the population, down from 23.5 percent in 1996.

In contrast, the 2001 Census total of allophones, those who report a mother tongue other than English or French, was 5.3 million, or 18 percent of the population, up from 16.6 percent in the 1996 census.

Chinese is the third most common mother tongue in Canada, with the number of people reporting Chinese as their mother tongue at a total of 872,400. That's approximately 2.9 percent of the total population of Canada, up about 0.3 percent since 1996.

The other most common languages reported as mother tongue were Italian German Punjabi Spanish

Cree was the Aboriginal language reported as a mother tongue by the highest number of people in Canada at 80,000. The Inuktitut language was claimed as the mother tongue by 29,700 and Ojibway by 23,500.

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Statistics Languages in Canada

Canada is increasingly becoming a multilingual society according to language statistics from the 2001 Census of Canada. Statistics Canada says that while most people in Canada speak English or French at home, one out of every six reported having a mother tongue other than English or French.

Statistics Canada says that more than 100 languages were reported in the 2001 Census question on mother tongue. Mother tongue is defined by Statistics Canada as the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood. The fastest growth comes in Asian and Middle East language groups.

According to the 2001 Census, nine out of 10 people in Canada still speak either the English or French languages at home. All the other languages reported as mother tongue are not spoken at home as frequently. Only 10 percent spoke a language other than English or French at home, compared to 18 percent who reported another language as their mother tongue.

The 2001 Census total of anglophones, those who report their mother tongue as English, was 17.5 million, or 59.1 percent of the population of Canada, down from 59.8 percent at the last census in 1996.

The 2001 Census total of francophones, those who report their mother tongue as French, was 6.8 million, or 22.9 percent of the population, down from 23.5 percent in 1996.

In contrast, the 2001 Census total of allophones, those who report a mother tongue other than English or French, was 5.3 million, or 18 percent of the population, up from 16.6 percent in the 1996 census.

Chinese is the third most common mother tongue in Canada, with the number of people reporting Chinese as their mother tongue at a total of 872,400. That's approximately 2.9 percent of the total population of Canada, up about 0.3 percent since 1996.

The other most common languages reported as mother tongue were Italian German Punjabi Spanish

Cree was the Aboriginal language reported as a mother tongue by the highest number of people in Canada at 80,000. The Inuktitut language was claimed as the mother tongue by 29,700 and Ojibway by 23,500.

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