"That's quite a change from four years ago, when only 8 percent of our employees had access to them."

Last year, about 20 percent of the company's 12,000 new employees were black.

Only 4 percent of the department's 25,000 employees are Hispanic.

The company now has 70 percent of its 14,000 employees in India.

About 10 percent of its employees, or 130,000, have no coverage at all.

It has laid off 22 percent of its 1,000 employees this year.

Ten to 30 percent of the company's more than 2,000 employees already participate in the service, which began four months ago, he said.

"This is a name that 80 percent of our employees already have on their business card."

About 10 percent of the county's 15,000 employees have lost their jobs.

The 7,400 workers represent about 3 percent of the state's 210,000 employees.