Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of american»

Yet more than a quarter of Americans have no emergency savings at all, a Bankrate poll finds.

They also crow about: «with millions of Americans set to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, a new survey finds more than a quarter of Americans believe that God «plays a role in determining which team wins» at sports events».

The vaccine camp underscores the need for mass inoculation by trotting out government statistics showing that more than a quarter of American females ages 14 - 59 and nearly 45 percent of those ages 20 - 24 have been infected with HPV.

According to a previous Jockey survey, more than a quarter of Americans own underwear five or more years old, and 79 % have underwear that is tattered, discolored or stained.

Foreigners account for more than a quarter of American professors in the sciences, and more than half of the postdocs now working in the U.S. are born outside the country.

According to the 2015 Kessler Foundation National Employment and Disability Survey, more than a quarter of Americans with disabilities report a lack of transportation as a barrier to finding employment.

More than a quarter of American workers have public service jobs that benefit society, but many of these public servants have trouble seeing a personal return on their investment.

In fact, money is such a prevalent part of our lives that, according to a study by GOBankingRates, more than a quarter of Americans think about money more frequently than politics, their health, and even their love lives.

But auto loan refi gets forgotten: more than a quarter of Americans don't know this is an option, according to a survey from RateWatch, a premier banking data and analytics service owned by TheStreet.

More than a quarter of Americans (26 %) travel internationally at least once a year, on average, the survey found.

According to the 2016 US Census, more than a quarter of American kids live in single - parent households.

Shockingly, more than a quarter of Americans have admitted to engaging in trolling behaviour at some point.

According to StaySafeOnline.org, more than a quarter of Americans say they lack the information necessary.

Not exact matches

Debt is a millstone that weighs down more than three - quarters of Americans,» writes Abrams, whose new book, Minority Leader, is out today.

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that the richest 5 % of Americans will receive more than half of the benefits of the new federal tax law in 2019, and the richest 1 % of Americans will receive more than a quarter of the benefits.

One independent analysis, though, estimated the GOP framework could actually increase taxes on more than a quarter of middle - class Americans over time.

Americans make more than a quarter trillion 1 - 800 calls a year and don't have a very good time of it.

So sedans and other cars are expected to still form more than a quarter of all consumer vehicle sales in the U.S., but the overall trend appears to be that American companies especially are giving up trying to sell cars to Americans.

That means more than one - quarter of Americans could be classified as Internet trolls.

In a poll conducted earlier this year among several hundred corporate members of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprofit business - research organization in Houston, more than half the respondents (56.8 %) said they worked in fully walled offices, while less than a quarter (21.4 %) claimed modular settings.

Acetaminophen is the most common drug ingredient in the U.S.. It's found in more than 600 medicines, and nearly a quarter of American adults use it weekly.

More than three - quarters of Canada's exports end up in the U.S. or Mexico, while the Americans spread the same proportion of exports across their top 15 partners.

According to the Pew Research Center, more than a quarter — 26 percent — of American adults have not read even part of a book within the past year.

For instance, nearly three - quarters of poor American how make less than $ 30,000 per year don't have them while 81 % of those who make more than $ 75,000 do.

In fact, one out of every five American families spends more than a quarter of their income on childcare.

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

Hackers stole Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, credit card and driver's license numbers of 143 million people — more than half the adult population in the U.S., and about three - quarters of all Americans with a credit history.

Among the biggest losers from the news were automakers, which account for a little more than a quarter of steel demand in the U.S., according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

More than three - quarters of Americans want the next US president to «be committed to addressing the persecution that some Christians face around the world,» according to a poll released this week by Open Doors.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

Since that visit, more than a quarter of a million Americans have been initiated into TM; an estimated 15,000 per month are brought into the fellowship through 200 recruitment centers strategically located across the country.

But during more than a quarter - century of medical practice, I have been led by my clinical experience to reject the deterministic assumptions underlying the therapeutic worldview that now pervades American culture.

While they support his election as pope, nearly three - quarters of American Catholics say they are more likely to follow their own conscience on difficult moral questions than the teachings of the pope.

It is my argument that in a period of a quarter of a century the American civil religion was eroded by many such events; it lost far more than it gained.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the hit movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.

In 2003, more than three quarters of all American obstetricians were sued at least once, with a median award of $ 2.3 million for medical negligence in childbirth.

Asked about acceptable ways for candidates to raise money, more than three - quarters of Americans say that raising campaign money from contributions made by Washington lobbyists is unacceptable, putting it at the bottom of a list of six ways for raising money.

It was Gardner's first publication of a skeptical nature (he was the math games columnist for Scientific American for more than a quarter of a century).

Overall, more than a quarter of working Americans (27 percent) reported at least one negative outcome as a result of political discussions at work during this election season.

Although a majority of working Americans (60 percent) indicated that people at work are generally respectful toward others with differing political views, more than a quarter (26 percent) have witnessed or overheard their coworkers arguing about politics, and about 1 in 10 (11 percent) have gotten into an argument themselves.

A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

February 4, 2016 Connective tissue disease increases risk for cardiovascular problems A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

Probably the most impressive highlight was a repeat of news the AWEA released in January of 2015 at the time of their fourth quarter 2014 report, which showed that the American wind energy industry brought over four times more wind energy online in 2014 than in 2013.

And for the 10 % of Americans who get a quarter of their calories from added sugar, the risk more than doubles.

Over 60 million Americans have high blood pressure, including more than half (54 %) of all Americans age 65 to 74 years old and nearly three quarters (72 %) of all American blacks in the same age group.

But most of the arsenic in the American diet comes not from rice; more than three quarters comes from animal products: beef, milk, pork, hot dogs, eggs, and... chicken.

More than three - quarters of Americans» calories came from highly and moderately processed foods and drinks in 2012

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that by 6 p.m., people with night eating syndrome consumed a little more than a third of their daily calories, while a control group had consumed almost three - quarters.

We're hardly alone here: Of the 1,000 Americans with private insurance recently surveyed, more than a quarter have a high - deductible plan, per a poll taken by the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.