Sentences with phrase «about the average american»

(And if we're talking about the average American suburban home, it probably does have a living room large enough to park an elephant).

This seems counter to everything we've been told about the average American getting 8 times more protein per day than needed.

If the AG's involved in the «United for Clean Power» movement were truly concerned about average Americans instead of political power, they would read the real science data contained in the CEI materials.

I am not overweight but what about the average American who may be overweight but still able to make it through the park?

Not exact matches

It's the biggest chunk of the average American's budget, accounting for about 37 % of take - home pay.

The reason average Americans should care about the «taper» is that higher interest rates on bonds also means higher interest rates on things like mortgages.

In a study of 16 countries, Americans had the greatest disconnect on the income gap, believing that top executives make about 30 times more than average workers.

The biggest chunk of the average American's budget goes toward housing, which accounts for about 37 % of take - home pay.

In fact, American workers will spend on average of about six hours focusing on basketball during the tournament — checking brackets, watching a game online, reading coverage, and verifying team rankings, according to staffing firm OfficeTeam.

According to a 2017 study by Flurry, the average American spends five hours a day on smart devices and about two and a half of those hours are spent in social, messaging, media and entertainment applications.

Research suggests that an average American worker powers through 10,000 sheets of paper a year, each of which costs a company about $ 0.03.

Only 57 % of Canadian employees feel loyal to their employer, a new ADP survey finds, substantially below the 70 % global average, and Canadians are generally less optimistic about the future of the workplace compared to American workers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one - third of the average American's budget goes towards housing.

Fiber helps to keep you feel full after you eat, and not to mention the fact that the average American is eating about 14 grams of fiber a day and the recommendation is 30.

The average pre-tax income of the bottom half of American adults has held at about $ 16,000 since 1980, the report finds, according to the NBER paper.

Shoplifting cost American retailers $ 11.7 billion in 2009, representing about 35 % of the industry's «shrink» — inventory lost to theft and error — and costing the average retailer about 1.5 % of profits.

In 2014, men's commutes were longer than those of women by an average of about 3 minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

The study showed that on average, American women grew just five centimeters over the century to 163.5 cm — or two inches, to about 5» 4» on average, while men grew about 6 cm, to approximately 177.1 cm or 5» 8».

«The average American consumer has about 10 of our products in their closet,» CEO Glenn Chamandy told me last fall, after his gamble on the company's stock paid off.

In a 2012 White House briefing, when the former president was asked about whether he's out of touch with average Americans, Obama shared some details about his first car: «I bought my first car for about $ 900.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

But it's hard to deny that there is something, sometimes, that happens when we travel, even as part of the regular hour - and - a-half the average North American spends doing it each day — a sense of dislocation, even in familiar places, that helps us notice new details about our surroundings or that gives a new cast to those we've internalized.

The average Thanksgiving meal for 10 people costs about $ 50, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

In a series of controlled experiments, we asked participants, mostly average Americans in their 30s and 40s, to read about and evaluate the actions of fictional people who behaved in either a moral or immoral way.

Several studies have concluded that the average American does not know enough about how to best handle everyday financial decisions.

By comparison, Americans, on average, get about 50 % of their calories from carbs, 15 % from protein, and 30 % from fat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Americans who rate themselves as «very happy» volunteer an average of 5.8 hours per month, compared with those who describe themselves as «unhappy» and log only about 0.6 hours.

More than 80 % of Koreans own smartphones, compared to about 70 % of Americans, and on average they spend more than four hours a day on their phones.

On average, Americans paid about $ 707 in moving costs, according to HomeAdvisor.com.

Mark Zuckerberg's flimsy defense when congress asked about a lack of competition to Facebook has been to cite that the average American uses eight social apps.

The fact that Facebook owns or clones the majority of the 8 social apps used by the average American is nothing for Zuckerberg to boast about.

I am going to say one more thing, I realize I am getting wordy, but the average American is watching about 5.5 hours of TV a day and we see that going up to about 6 hours.

Stein is concerned about relatively new funds, known as «alternatives,» or funds with strategies that until recently weren't used in funds geared toward average Americans.

«Unlike the average American — wallowing in credit - card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office — he isn't worried about the economic crisis.

Zuckerberg tried to give a longer answer about how the «average American uses eight different apps» to connect with their friends, attempting to frame Facebook as just one of many apps.

A number of Fed officials will be speaking on the outlook for the economy and the latest consumer sentiment report will show us just how the average American is feeling about their finances and the economy.

People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]

As surprising as it might sound, the average American's retirement income is barely over $ 1,500 per month or about $ 18,000 annually, according to the Pension Rights Center.

-LSB-...] the Great Depression, the American economy has fallen into recession about every five years (on average) since the recession preceding it -LSB-...]

Correa said in February that the South American nation is receiving as little as $ 30 a barrel for its crude, while production costs average about $ 39.

In the case of American Water Works, the return on equity has averaged about 10 % annually over the past decade.

The average American spends about five hours each day watching television.

In the broadest of human terms it is no unique indictment that the average American citizen finds it hard to care very much about what the CIA has done.

The primary question asked was, «Are average Americans «misperceiving» information about Iraq and the war?»

Now, you probably know more about the Crusades than the average American who would do this, so you probably have some specific ideas in mind.

Americans enjoy a lifestyle that is about four times the global average.

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

«180» opens with a rather embarrassing glimpse of the ignorance of the «average» American college student about the history of Nazi Germany.

The average American or Canadian consumes about 2000 pounds of grain each year.

It smells to the average American of petroleum, suggests the red flag and all manner of sexual novelties, and an abusive tone about God and religion....