38% of Americans have flown first-class

Percentage of Americans who have fired someone from a job, according to a survey by CBS for the game show "Power of Ten": 33

Percentage of Americans who have flown first-class: 38

Source: CBS Television Network.

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Percentage of Americans who know that it is legal for employers to refuse to hire job applicants with low credit scores, according to a survey released by Visa USA: 20

Percentage of Americans who mistakenly believe it is illegal for prospective employers to use credit scores as a hiring criteria: 52

Source: Visa.

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Percentage of parents who say that paying for their child's college education is at least somewhat important to them, according to a survey conducted for Futuretrust: 91

Percentage of parents who say they have actually saved as much for college as they had planned: 9

Percentage of parents who say that they are absolutely certain they will save enough for their child's college education in the next 10 years: 13

Source: Futuretrust.

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Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have the necessary education and training to get ahead in their current career, according to a 2006 study conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: 57

Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have taken special courses or retraining to improve their job skills: 72

Source: Pew Research Center for People and the Press.

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Ranks of Deloitte and Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, IBM, Google, Microsoft and Walt Disney in BusinessWeek's second annual ranking of the "Best Places to Launch a Career": 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Average first-year salaries in 2007 (before bonuses): $60,000 to $65,000

Source: BusinessWeek.