Sentences with phrase «as a percentage of income for»

We're less concerned about housing costs as a percentage of income for homeowners — at this point in the economic recovery, the vast majority of people who were going to be foreclosed on are already in the process.

We're less concerned about housing costs as a percentage of income for homeowners — at this point in the economic recovery, the vast majority of people who were going to be foreclosed on are already in the process.

State - specific costs of child care and cost as a percentage of income for families of color and families living in poverty

Not exact matches

Household debt as a percentage of disposable income was was 163.3 % in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported last week — only marginally lower than the record 163.9 % ratio the agency calculated for the fourth quarter.

Projections involve numerous assumptions such as rental income (including assumptions on percentage rent), interest rates, tenant defaults, occupancy rates, foreign currency exchange rates (such as the US - Canadian rate), selling prices of properties held for disposition, expenses (including salaries and employee costs), insurance costs and numerous other factors.

Think about this number because the rest of your life will be determined by your decision to keep a percentage of your income today so as to always have money for yourself in the future.

If the IRS finds you've misclassified an employee as an independent contractor, you'll pay a percentage of income taxes that should have been withheld on the employee's wages and be liable for your share of the FICA and unemployment taxes, plus penalties and interest.

Federal borrowers facing periods of low or no income can also file for Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE), which cap your monthly payments to a percentage of what you earn, not what you owe, according to Gary Carpenter, CPA and Executive Director of National College Advocacy Group, which supplies information regarding student income can also file for Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE), which cap your monthly payments to a percentage of what you earn, not what you owe, according to Gary Carpenter, CPA and Executive Director of National College Advocacy Group, which supplies information regarding student Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE), which cap your monthly payments to a percentage of what you earn, not what you owe, according to Gary Carpenter, CPA and Executive Director of National College Advocacy Group, which supplies information regarding student loans.

Georgia ranks 17th for total taxes paid but 15th for taxes paid as a percentage of income because the median household income is higher here than in some states with lower tax burdens.

Payroll tax is usually calculated as a percentage of total employee salaries and is used by the government to pay for things like income tax, MediCare and Social Security.

The biggest loss may come in the form of losing the option to sign up for an income - driven repayment plan, which limits monthly payments as a percentage of your income.

To ensure what you pay each month is affordable for your particular financial situation, your monthly payment is set as a percentage of your discretionary income, typically between 10 % and 20 %, based on the plan.

The Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) is 5.25 % for Equity Funds, 3.75 % for Fixed Income Funds and 4.50 % for Target Retirement Funds.

As fewer companies offer pensions and Social Security makes up a smaller percentage of the average retiree's income, individuals will have to rely more on their own savings for living in retirement.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

This percentage represents the amount of ordinary dividends paid (including short - term capital gains distributions) during the fund's fiscal year, as income qualifying for the dividends - received deduction.

«The Commission could consider leaving the current income and net worth thresholds in the accredited investor definition in place, but limiting investments for individuals who qualify as accredited investors solely based on those thresholds to a percentage of their income or net worth (e.g., 10 % of prior year income or 10 % of net worth, as applicable, per issuer, in any 12 - month period).»

Add in the fact that higher income people usually derive a larger portion of their income from investments (which tend to have associated tax benefits), and it's easy to see how the percentage paid out in taxes is almost the same for all income brackets over $ 40,000, as MLR notes.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

First, he said, some young people will be able to borrow the money they need for college and pay it back after graduation as a small percentage of their income over time.

For more than a decade, giving as a percentage of income to all mainline churches, Protestant as well as Catholic, has declined.

Though it's relatively rare for tenants to leave — they pay a scaled percentage of store income as rent, and it's nearly unheard of for anyone to be shown the door — when it does happen, the process is intense.

For the first time the department is allowing principals to set aside a percentage of seats for low - income families, English - language learners or students engaged with the child welfare system as a means of creating greater diversiFor the first time the department is allowing principals to set aside a percentage of seats for low - income families, English - language learners or students engaged with the child welfare system as a means of creating greater diversifor low - income families, English - language learners or students engaged with the child welfare system as a means of creating greater diversity.

Cuomo is counting on the spending rate to stay at 2 % or less in order to pay for a multi year phased in property tax cut known as a circuit breaker, that is based on the percentage of property taxes compared to a homeowner's income.

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Similar trends for education and noneducation majors are evident for other measures of college selectivity, such as the percentage of incoming freshmen ranking near the top of their high - school class.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Specifically, I separated out the effects on test - score gains of a student's race and ethnicity, as well as accounted for the influence of a student's peers, by evaluating the influence of demographic characteristics of the student body, including average income level and percentage of minority students.

If one calculates these percentage increases as national income projections over an 80 - year period (providing for a 20 - year delay before any school reform is completed and the newly proficient students begin their working careers), a back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests gains of nothing less than $ 75 trillion over the period.

Borrowers who work in a low - income school or in subject areas their state designates as in critical need, such as math and science, qualify to have a percentage of their Perkins debt canceled each year for five years until all of the debt is forgiven.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

Conversely, spending as a percentage of family income goes down with rising socioeconomic status (e.g., 7 % for families making $ 100 - $ 150k vs. 12 % for those making from $ 50 - 60k).

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

Known as «sequestration,» the cuts are costing the district hundreds of millions of dollars in Title I money for school districts with high percentages of low - income students.

While we believe a focus on Pell completion is laudable and absolutely called for, the proposal fails to account for the percentage of Pell - eligible students enrolled within institutions; and, as a result, any new funding will likely benefit wealthy, selective campuses where low - income students are the least likely to enroll.

As an alternative to collecting individual applications for F / RP meals, CEP allows schools and local educational agencies (LEA) with a high percentage of low - income children to offer free meals to all students.

Public schools that enroll a large percentage of low - income students stand to lose significant chunks of their budget, as well as a number of specialized federal programs for their students.

However, in a report that Richard Kahlenberg and I coauthored for the Century Foundation, we profiled diverse charter schools in which the proportion of low - income students (as measured by eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch) ranged from 30 to 70 percent, within 20 percentage points of the 50 percent goal (Kahlenberg & Potter, 2012).

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

(A) The allotment percentage for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States, except that (A) the allotment percentage shall in no case be more than 75 per centum or less than 33 1/3 per centum, and (B) the allotment percentage for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be 75 per centum.

This is a valid concern, but do not forget, that eBooks are very easy to make, and account for a large percentage of residual income, as it is easier to track a discounted older ebook, then it is a second hand book found at a used book store.

Once she's done a deal for you, she's entitled to her percentage of all income earned from that deal for as long as it lasts, even if you subsequently change agents.

Deductions that must exceed a certain percentage of income, such as medical or miscellaneous itemized deductions, might be too small to be deducted on a joint return but large enough for a deduction on a separate return.

To ensure what you pay each month is affordable for your particular financial situation, your monthly payment is set as a percentage of your discretionary income, typically between 10 % and 20 %, based on the plan.

When you also take into account the fact that singles devote a larger percentage of their income to basics such as food (8.3 % of their gross monthly income, versus 5.6 % for couples) and utilities such as cable (1.8 % of gross monthly income, versus 1 % for couples), it's easy to see how singles often find they have little money left at the end of the month.

For our rankings, we examined the average income for each city as well as the percentage of residents who attended colleFor our rankings, we examined the average income for each city as well as the percentage of residents who attended collefor each city as well as the percentage of residents who attended college.

These folks often recommend a lower percentage of income for house payments, such as 25 %.

This percentage represents the amount of ordinary dividends paid (including short - term capital gains distributions) during the fund's fiscal year, as income qualifying for the dividends - received deduction.

It measures gross rental income as a percentage, accounting for potential vacancies, the cost of maintenance and non-collection of rent that landlords face from time - to - time.