Sentences with phrase «average citizen of each state»

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Periu says most of the 11 million citizens will welcome an influx of U.S. capital, products and services but notes that state workers earn an average of $ 20 per month.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

Though we have no way of knowing whether average Iranian citizens regard state - run media as truthful or just a Persian Pravda, for now the government's control over television, radio and newspapers has allowed it to portray the protests in the worst possible light.

According to poll results published this week by the Bush Foundation, 83 percent of Minnesotans said «the voice of average citizens has been lost» in the debate over the state budget.

This means the average citizen of a US Territory is paying less in taxes then the average citizen of a US state (or DC citizen).

«The average newspaper reader might not grasp it right away,» said David Friedfel, director of state research at the Citizens Budget Commission, a spending watchdog.

They include average citizens and local politicians like Tom Libous, the second - highest ranking Republican in the State Senate and the godfather of the local G.O.P. organization.

The United States pays three times as much per citizen as the average of other wealthy nations — far more than even the second - highest spender, Switzerland, adding up to $ 3 trillion a year.

After following the personal life of one transgender sex worker in Hollywood, California, Sean Baker will set his sights next on exploring the hard scrabble life of the average American citizen living in the greater state of Florida.

A simple regression of the average grades citizens assign to local schools in each state on NAEP and state proficiency rates simultaneously confirms that average grades (1) are strongly correlated with NAEP proficiency rates and (2) after controlling for NAEP proficiency rates, have no relationship whatsoever with proficiency rates on state tests.

«To improve the quality of education; make health and safety improvements; modernize / construct classrooms, restrooms and school facilities: and improve P.E. fields and facilities; shall Laton Joint Unified School District issue $ 7,000,000 of bonds at legal rates, averaging $ 421,000 annually as long as bands are outstanding at a rate of approximately 6 cents per $ 100 assessed value, with annual audits, an independent citizens» oversight committee, no money for salaries, and funding that can not be taken by the State?»

The new State of Our Cities report, released today at a mayors» roundtable at the Bush Center, is an explanatory and comparative tool prepared by the George W. Bush Institute to help leaders (and average citizens, for that matter) make sense of city level education data.

The high level of bankruptcies alleviates outstanding debt for some of the most indebted citizens, lowering the state average.

It is too hard for the average citizen to wade through the hodgepodge of laws in most states.

Her recent series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), investigates objects and scenes that are often literally and metaphorically out of visual reach by the average citizen in the United States.

Right now, the average United States citizen generates about 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year through the use of electricity, heating and cooling, vehicles, manufacturing and the other energy - intensive facets of modern daily life.

In 2005, an average of 68 tons of goods moved 15,310 miles in the United States for each U.S. citizen.

In 1998, the American Petroleum Institute developed an internal Communications Action Plan that stated: Victory will be achieved when & average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science & [and] recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the conventional wisdom.

For example, at Love Canal, in Western New York, toxic pollution had been accumulating for decades (since well before the 1940s), but average citizens only started to understand that it was putting them at risk in the 1960s, and the true extent of the environmental disaster was not recognized until a New York State agency organized a large scale scientific investigation in 1977 using newly developed forensic chemistry techniques to quantify the extent to which people were exposed to toxic chemicals.

With Nationwide, senior citizen drivers are paying $ 963 compared to a state average of $ 889.

Home insurance premiums for citizens of Oakland are 41 % cheaper than the state average at $ 734 per year or $ 61 monthly.

Surprisingly, I found that citizens of the Hoosier State can insure themselves well below the state average for premState can insure themselves well below the state average for premstate average for premiums.

Their concern is the new limit on the amount of state and local taxes citizens can deduct on their federal filings will be capped at $ 10,000, an amount lower than the current average deduction in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Next Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a big Florida foreclosure defense case — so big, in fact, that lots of banks are complaining to the news media that there will be a huge state - wide financial crisis if the Florida Supreme Court sides with the Average Joe citizen who's fighting this -LSB-...]