Sentences with phrase «u.s. population centers»

Following Katrina, a $ 125 billion disaster, major U.S. population centers have largely dodged the bullet of tropical storms.

We serve many of the fastest - growing U.S. population centers, operate from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways.

Union Pacific serves many of the fastest - growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways.

Not exact matches

That said, there are certain populations that are overrepresented on Twitter in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center: young people aged 18 to 29, African - Americans, city dwellers, and audiences reporting a household income of $ 75,000 or more.

While half the population requires food aid to survive you can see multi million dollar (U.S.) homes going up around Harare in gated communities with expensive shopping centers peddling fine imported foods and goods.

In 2005, only 3 % of U.S. population growth was centered in the nation's top 50 cities.

Recent surveys of U.S. social media usage, such as the Pew Center's, find that Twitter is only used by 17 % of the U.S. population, and at BI Intelligence we've published data showing that Google + has overtaken Twitter in U.S. audience numbers.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

The region is centered in the middle of the U.S., at the cross-section of international air, rail, interstate and major rivers; within 500 miles of one - third of the U.S. population and 1,500 miles of 90 percent of the people in North America.

Latin America is also home to the two most populous Catholic countries: Brazil and Mexico (the U.S. has the fourth - largest Catholic population), the Pew Center found.

Other surveys — such as the General Social Surveys, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago since 1972 — find that the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades at around 25 %.

The state is one of the most isolated population centers on earth, located 2,390 miles from the U.S. mainland and 3,850 from Japan.

Our state of the art manufacturing facilities are located throughout the U.S. and provide convenient access to transportation lanes that are within hours of high population centers.

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

According to the National Center for PTSD in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about 8 percent of the population will have PTSD at some point in their lives.

NAEP operates under the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the U.S. Department of Education and provides subject - matter achievement and instructional experiences of American student population subgroups.

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

Additional Chinese alligators from these U.S. zoos were sent to breeding centers in China to provide valuable genetic diversity in captive populations.

For a study forthcoming in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, authors David Nelson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Todd Katzner of the U.S. Geological Survey (formerly West Virginia University), and colleagues traced individual eagles» movements through isotopes in their feathers to identify their breeding areas and to assess the population's migratory connectivity.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, and other groups say they are particularly alarmed by the plan's goal of establishing a population of just 300 to 325 animals, and the provision that blocks the wolves from living north of U.S. Interstate 40.

Rates of diabetes are unusually high among Mexican - Americans who live near the U.S. Mexico border and new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) finds that those dealing with depression and anxiety in this population are less likely to properly manage their diabetes.

Dr. Navarro said, «Our study group is specific to DILIN centers and therefore we can not conclude that liver injury due to herbals and dietary supplements in on the rise in the U.S. Further population - based study of liver injury due to herbal products and dietary supplements is needed.»

Despite the sage grouse's danger, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied a 2005 petition filed by the Center and allies to recognize the Mono Basin sage grouse as a distinct population and federally grant it threatened or endangered status.

August 11, 2009 — The Center petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to formally separate the Mexican gray wolf from other U.S. wolf populations and list it under the Endangered Species Act as either an endangered subspecies or a «distinct population segment.»

It coincides with the recovering economy, an increase in donations of clothing and household goods to charity, and a trend toward downsizing as U.S. population growth shifts from the suburbs to city centers in many areas.»

According to Peter Green, M.D., a gastroenterologist at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, 1 percent of the U.S. population has gluten allergy, but 97 percent of these people haven't even been diagnosed.

Others suffer from a gluten allergy or a non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which is estimated to affect 6 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment.

At the heart of it all is the inherent racism lurking at the center of U.S. policy towards the Native population, an assumption of cultural and social supremacy that refuses to allow those fighting for the cause to see the bigger picture even when its thrust their way with all the subtly of a bullet fired from a Winchester rifle.

Chances are high that the thieves got ahold of sensitive information on you or someone in your family, given that the breach touches almost half the entire U.S. population and nearly three - quarters of those who have a credit report on file, according to the National Consumer Law Center.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

The dams safeguard a population of more than 1 million, the Texas Medical Center and petrochemical facilities that form the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.

Draft legislation from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would radically expand the federal government's power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote renewable energy zones to the nation's population centers.

With solar plants along vast stretches of the almost 2,000 - mile U.S. - Mexico border on the Mexican side, a new high - voltage direct - current (HVDC) grid could be set up to transmit energy efficiently from that long, snaking array to population centers along the border.

The decision comes in response to a March 2016 petition from the Animal Welfare Institute, Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians seeking U.S. protections to help prevent the extinction of a population that now numbers fewer than 100 individuals.

As in China, some of the best U.S. wind resources are located in remote areas and require new or upgraded transmission lines to move electricity to population centers.

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western U.S.,» says study co-author Mathew Winnick of Stanford University.

Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,387,138, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in March 2016, making it the 24th - largest metropolitan area in the United States, the sixth - largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States, and the third - largest metropolitan area in Florida.

Cradled among Winona Lake, Pike Lake, Hidden Lake, and Center Lake, Warsaw has a population of 13,559 as of the 2010 U.S. Census.

Given the size and growth rate of the U.S. Hispanic population (Marotta & Garcia, 2003), as well as the large proportion of children and adolescents within this population (Ramírez & de la Cruz, 2003), identifying predictors of engagement into parent - centered preventive interventions for Hispanic youth is an important research direction.

«The West is always first to recover in the U.S., due to the population centers around L.A. And it is L.A. and Long Beach port activity that drives an enormous amount of product into the U.S.»

The new fund will target grocery - anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers throughout the U.S., concentrating on areas with stable and growing residential populations.

Half of the U.S. population lives in the nation's top 50 urban centers.

With strong economies, booming population centers and sophisticated port infrastructure, the Eastern U.S. has been an industrial real estate mainstay for decades.

Over 64 million Americans — 20 percent of the U.S. population — live in multigenerational households, which is based on a report by the Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Read More»

The Best Cities for Middle - Class Families Index by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy looked at housing affordability, employment trends, migration patterns, income growth, and how long it takes to commute in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population more than 500,000 and determined that many of the top areas for middle - class families are midsize.

Well, by 2030, it's expected that one - quarter of the U.S. population will be age 50 or older, according to a recent study by The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

According to a new Pew Research Center report of census data, a record 64 million Americans, accounting for some 20 percent of the total U.S. population, lived in multi-generational family households in 2016, representing a three - decade continuous progression in this type of household formation — despite government propaganda that indicates economic improvements since the Great Recession.»