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However, as we get richer, each extra dollar of GDP is buying us less and less social progress.
So an unregulated 1.2 billion dollar industry that thrives as much on the street as it does online, and has spawned fundamental financial services for sneakers?
She was a NASA project scientist who spearheaded the NASA side of the Rosetta mission, which became famous this year for landing a rover on a comet, and the 1.5 billion dollar Galileo mission to Jupiter, two high-profile scientific victories for NASA, the United States and the world.
It can lead to confusion, animosity, misunderstanding, or even crashing a multimillion dollar probe into the surface of Mars.
So why do we think that our choice of a four dollar shade-grown fair trade artisanal cup of coffee in a reusable mug matters, but what we do with 4,000 dollars in our investment account for our IRA doesn't?
If you had invested a dollar 20 years ago in a portfolio of companies that focused narrowly on making more money quarter by quarter, that one dollar would have grown to 14 dollars and 46 cents.
That's not bad until you consider that if instead you'd invested that same dollar in a portfolio of companies that focused on growing their business and on the most important environmental and social issues, that one dollar would have grown to 28 dollars and 36 cents.
Sustainable investment today is a 20 trillion dollar market and it's the fastest-growing segment of the investment industry.
From 1970 until today, the percentage of the world's population living in starvation levels, living on a dollar a day or less, obviously adjusted for inflation, that percentage has declined by 80 percent.
That's important because it would allay well, let's say, the ridiculous concerns that the US might have that the SDR could ever challenge the dollar's dominant role in international finance.
And in fact, I think the only thing that the SDR would likely steal from the dollar under this scheme is its nickname, the "greenback."
I actually was offered, right out of medical school, and accepted a volunteer contract to work with UNICEF in war-torn Somalia, that was worth one dollar.
And, you see, I had to be paid this dollar in the event that the UN needed to issue an evacuation order, so that I would be covered.
The point I want to make with these two examples is that there's nothing inherently valuable about a dollar or a stone or a coin.
This is where that 77 cents on the dollar comes from.
A lot of people in that context say, "Let's go dollar.
So with paper, copper tape, lightbulb and a battery, people can complete this project for under a dollar.
When we talk about the wage gap, we often say women make 78 cents to every dollar that a man makes.
In this multibillion dollar enterprise that simple rubber O-ring made the difference between mission success and the calamitous death of seven astronauts.
When the dollar loses its value, the dollar doesn't suffer.
Now you can buy McDonald's for one dollar.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a woman employee earns just 83 cents for every dollar a man earns.
A woman business owner earns just 80 cents for every dollar a man earns.
I hear very different narratives in working with male business owners, and I think this difference is costing women 20 cents on the dollar.
In 1978, black households in the United States earned 59 cents for every dollar of income whites earned.
In 2015, black families still earn 59 cents for every dollar of income that white families receive, and the racial gaps in wealth are even more stunning.
For every dollar of wealth that whites have, black families have six pennies and Latinos have seven pennies.
For a dollar more than what the existing product was offered for, at three dollars, we were able to deliver "janma," a clean birth kit in a purse.
Unless, of course, the piece of paper was a hundred dollar bill.
A hundred dollar bill is printed by the government and designated as official currency, while other pieces of paper are not.
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