Sentences with phrase «at least a percentage point»

More than 80 districts including Newark, Orlando, and Los Angeles, have increased their published graduation rates by at least a percentage point in recent years while sending more students to alternative programs, ProPublica has found.

For one, the starting interest rate for an ARM is often at least a percentage point lower than a fixed - rate mortgage, which can add up to substantial savings.

Not exact matches

The companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»

The generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes at least 10 percentage points above Fidelity's recommended allocation for their age is baby boomers, coming in at 26 percent.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Murphy won handily each time, beating his opponent by at least 15 percentage points.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centAt about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centat least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centat least 7 per cent).

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

Nine in 10 (89 %) job seekers report they're likely to use a mobile device during their job search in the next 12 months, up seven percentage points (82 %) from less than a year ago.2 Also, 45 % of job seekers say they use their mobile device specifically to search for jobs at least once a day, up two percentage points in less than a year.

Opinion of the tax reform plan is divided in «red» counties that Trump won by at least ten percentage points in 2016 - 34 % approve and 37 % disapprove.

The Teranet — National Bank National Composite House Price IndexTM was unchanged in March — the first time outside a recession when the March composite index was not up at least 0.2 percentage points from February and the first time outside a recession when March indexes were up for only four of the 11 metropolitan markets of -LSB-...]

On average, high - quality corporate bonds currently have yields that are at least one percentage point higher than Treasury bonds.

As a result of this positive behavior, the number of people who are likely to afford at least their essential expenses in retirement jumped seven percentage points since 2013, from 38 to 45 percent.»

The refinance must produce a net tangible benefit resulting in at least a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the combined interest rate and Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) or Refinancing from an Adjustable - Rate Mortgage (ARM) to a Fixed - Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and MIP)

Ask J. Keith Baker, mortgage banking professor at Irving, Texas - based North Lake College, and he'll tell you the 30 - year rate may rise by at least a half percentage point by mid-year, taking us to around 4.50 percent, on average.

Betting all underdogs in low - scoring games would result in a 55 % winning percentage while slightly larger dogs (of at least 3.5 points) have covered at a 58.5 % clip.

The line dropped at least 13 points in each of these games, even when the public betting percentages were split on both sides.

His shooting made him difficult to defend: he'd wind up leading the league in three - point percentage twice while making at least 44 percent of his shots from long range in nine of his 10 seasons.

Since the highest four - year pro success rate from any QB in this sample is 46.1 percent (from both Cousins and, thus far, Dak Prescott), and since 35 of 38 quarterbacks in our draft sample were at least three percentage points lower in the NFL than in college (most were much further away than that), let's set an artificial bar at 49.1 percent.

Road underdogs of at least 7 - points have gone just 426 - 406 (51.2 %), which isn't a high enough winning percentage to cover the standard -110 juice charged by sportsbooks.

When they're an underdog of at least 8 - points, that record improves to 141 - 131 (51.8 %) and when they're a home underdog of at least 8 - points that winning percentage skyrockets to 69.4 %.

In particular, we studied taking underdogs getting at least 7 points, at various betting percentage thresholds.

Breastfeeding initiation rates were significantly lower among black infants in 23 states; in 14 of these states, the difference was at least 15 percentage points.

A significant difference of at least 10 percentage points in exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months was found between black and white infants in 12 states, and at 12 months of breastfeeding in 22 states.

The rate of initiation was at least 20 percentage points lower for non-Hispanic blacks than for non-Hispanic whites in 13 states, mostly in the southeast.

Rinfret, as you'll recall, came within one percentage point of losing to Conservative Party gubernatorial candidate Herb London in 1990, which would have caused the demise — at least for four years — of the GOP.

Republican Harry Wilson, who, as a largely self - funding political newcomer, came within just under 4 percentage points of ousting Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli last fall, has not said anything publicly in response to a NY Post report that he's being talked up as a potential 2012 challenger to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, but he already has at least one GOP county chairman in his corner.

In 2008/9 academies saw a five percentage point increase in the proportion of pupils achieving at least five GCSEs at A * to C including English and mathematics - double the national average.

According to the most recent Siena poll, Cuomo is at least 35 percentage points ahead of each of his three prospective GOP opponents.

When matched against several potential Republican gubernatorial candidates, Cuomo leads each of them by at least 40 percentage points.

However, they said the cuts would be at least half a percentage point on tax brackets for New Yorkers reporting less than $ 300,000 in annual income.

The mayor's lead decreased in the latest NY1 / Baruch College City Poll, but he was still up by at least 30 percentage points heading into Election Day.

How far could tens of millions of dollars go in smaller, less expensive states where Democrats have a better chance to make pickups, such as Arizona and Nevada, or the five states where incumbent Democratic senators face electorates that favored Donald Trump by at least 17 percentage points in 2016 (Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia)?

In half of the districts, the minority population grew by at least 5 percentage points.

Miringoff points out that Cuomo leads all four potential candidates by at least 40 percentage points.

The child poverty fell 10 percentage points to 44 percent, the lowest rate since at least 2010.

They were 12 percentage points more likely to stay enrolled for at least four semesters.

They find that attending Noble meant a student was 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college and stay for at least four semesters.

Looking at each of the CMOs in the NewSchools portfolio individually, we find that half are producing breakthrough results, with average proficiency rates that are at least 15 percentage points higher than their local districts.

The report shows that across OECD countries, 33 per cent of primary to secondary teachers were at least 50 years old in 2015, up 3 percentage points from 2005.

In 2016, the north ‑ east had a sharp drop in entries, with the proportion of pupils entering at least on arts subject ranging from 57.3 per cent in the south ‑ west and 47.8 per cent in the north east — a gap of 9.5 percentage points.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

And the charter school students were 11 percentage points more likely to have attended at least two years of college.

Other states where percentage differences between the two groups exceed at least 10 percentage points include California, Delaware, and Texas.

The proportion of pupils taking at least four of the EBacc subjects has risen from 37.5 per cent in 2016 to 43.7 per cent this year, an increase of 6.2 percentage points.

Our strictest test of the program's impact indicates that NLP schools show higher scores of 1.5 percentile points and a 2.5 higher percentage achieving at least level 4 in mathematics.