Sentences with phrase «states population hit»

In 2011, 13 % of the United States population hit 65 or older.

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And demographic changes that affect the age distribution of the population could mask the real state of the job market, too: «if the population is aging, a greater percentage of the population may hit retirement age and willingly retire, which doesn't imply a weaker job market,» CEPR's Evan Butcher and Nicholas Buffie wrote in a blog post this week.

Five years after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Rockaways in Queens, the population has recovered and the local economy has hit record levels, according to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

In Borno, the hardest hit state, 1.2 million have crowded into the capital city of Maiduguri alone, doubling the population in a matter of months.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

Throw in our country's percentage of English - language learners (ELLs), which ranges from 10 to 25 percent of our K — 12 population (depending on the state), and you have an issue that requires precise scaffolding to help prepare our students to hit grade - level speaking expectations.

We also will support state safety net policies that mitigate the impact of troubling trends on hard - hit populations.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

The resolution text assigns human emissions some responsibility for driving harmful warming, and it states that «if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest.»

The demographic wave of Baby Boomers hitting retirement age will nearly double the 65 - plus population in the United States by 2050, from 43.1 million to 83.7 million, according to projections by the U.S. Census Bureau.