Sentences with phrase «average than middle»

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China has some 300 million consumers it considers middle class, although with an average annual income equivalent to $ 5,000, such consumers earn considerably less than their U.S. counterparts.

We already had some signs in the middle of 2016 that it was going to be a rough year for Apple: In the second and third quarters of the year, shipments of Apple's Macs were declining way faster than industry average, as people waited impatiently for the company to release a new MacBook Pro.

The net wealth for the middle quintile (ages 35 - 44) of mid-career workers averaged $ 50,100, less than half the net wealth of the same quintile ($ 103,800) in 1989.

There was some improvement for the middle quintile of recent retirees who saw their average net wealth go up from $ 142,900 in 1989 to $ 239,300 in 2013, but this was still less than the peak of $ 270,700 hit in 2007.

Although the average level of after - tax income of the top 1 percent of households remains well below its 2007 peak, the percentage increase in their average after - tax income from 1979 to 2013 was five times larger than that of the middle 60 percent and four times larger than that of the bottom fifth.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

What doesn't play in the state's favor is its high cost of living, bolstered by higher - than - average home prices and middling deposit account rates — and the second - highest median property tax in the country.

This is a middling rate that's lower than what many competitors offer (and is lower than the national average) but higher than what some big banks offer.

Average real middle quintile incomes were lower in 2011 than they were in 1976, so concerns about income trends can not be dismissed.

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

Such that to be even a middling defender he needs to be much quicker than average with his footwork and decision making.

Not a single away win from 11 attempts and if you want to know just how bad we do with him in the middle, our points average per match with Oliver is even worse than it was with Mike Dean.

MIDDLE MAN: With two years of varsity experience already, senior inside linebacker Ferrin Manuleleua has averaged more than 100 tackles per season, including a team - best 116 in 14 games last year.

Why is it, exactly, that poor children are less likely to succeed, on average, than middle - class children?

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

The average middle - class family spends more than $ 225,000 in the first 18 years of a child's life.

The average standard of living for middle class in USSR was far worse materially than all but 0.01 % of US poorest - and I experienced both those conditions.

For comparison, Arab middle - eastern states seem to congregate at rankings below 150 and corruption score at or below 20 of 100 (Lebanon and Iran are at 30 score), so Israel is indeed far closer to a Western Democracy average than to Arab states.

Raise their taxes to 95 %, if they earn 1 % of the average richer class, the rich has to pay more than 0.95 % of tax, and their power is still bigger than middle class» vote power.

Given that the average income of UKIP voters is lower than that of supporters of the other main parties, and that households with incomes of # 30,000 a year or more are amongst those least likely to vote UKIP, the emphasis on tax cuts for middle and higher earners seems like an odd strategy.

Green voters are younger, more female, better - educated and more middle - class than the average — whereas Ukip voters are older, more male, more working class and far less likely to have a university degree.

In upstate areas, average homes seldom cost more than half a million dollars, but in New York City, and its suburbs, it's not uncommon for middle class homes to be valued in that range.

The IFS says it shows, once all of the benefit cuts are considered, the tax and benefit changes announced in the emergency budget are «clearly regressive», as on average, they hit the poorest households more than those in the upper - middle of income distribution in cash.

ven so, during 2010 - 2014 people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the U.S. health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.

The average twentysomething experiences it about three times a year; middle - aged people rarely experience it more than once a decade.

Most parents in the 500 Family Study are highly educated, employed in professional occupations, and work, on average, longer hours and report higher earnings than do middle - class families in other, nationally representative samples.

The women who had a high cardiovascular fitness in middle age and still developed dementia did so an average of 11 years later than those who were in the medium fitness group, or at age 90 years instead of age 79 years.

Women who have a high cardiovascular fitness in middle age have a risk of developing dementia when older that is almost 90 percent lower than among women in average physical condition, according to a study published in the journal Neurology.

These values are derived from twenty - four - hour urinary sodium excretion measurements in studies involving over one hundred thousand participants.4 Cordain implies that sodium intake in «non-westernized people» is far lower than in the US, but in fact the average daily sodium intake in Asia, Africa and the Middle East is about 50 percent higher than the 3.4 grams per day in the U.S. and Canada.24, 25

The study, which appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, included more than 200 middle - aged women who were experiencing an average of 10 hot flashes per day.

While the anterior deltoid displays a peak moment arm length greater than the middle deltoid, Keuchle et al (1997) reported that the average moment arm length to be 23.4 mm compared to 16.5 mm, indicating the greater contribution of the middle deltoid moment arm length throughout the full range of motion.

In contrast, the posterior deltoid displays an average extensor muscle moment arm length of -0.17 mm, indicating that it probably functions differently than the anterior and middle deltoids.

From loafers to pumps, and from lower leg strap shoes to boots, anticipate that everything will get limitlessly spruced up for fall and winter 2015, the embellishments running in the middle of the sensitive and the larger than average.

Rich men aren't all that different than your average middle class or working class male — they want a beautiful woman by their side and they want to be happy.

I'm not on a sd website to find a guy who's more broke than I am or the average upper middle class joe.

admittedly they have some fairly dubious reviews at times, but the fact that their scores are more often than not very similar to the average that metacritic gives them is proof that they are not super hype builders or givers of crazy reviews, they are pretty middle of the line and reasonable with their scores.

In the original cut, he's clearly extending his middle finger and giving the woman a little more than your average goose.

And though these teens are far less perky and prone to bursting into song in the middle of the hallway or basketball court than the cast from High School Musical there are still plenty of musical interludes with above average performances as various groups prepare for the fierce competition.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

Thirty - three percent of the earliest cohorts of KIPP middle - school students were found to have graduated college within six years, four times the average rate of students from underserved communities and slightly higher than the figure (31 percent) for all U.S. students.

True, middle and upper income schools in the US do significantly better than low income schools, but even the average suburben upper income school has still a long way to go to catch up with the average school of the world's best performing education systems.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Higher - performing middle schools share many of the same practices and attributes, concludes a study of 15 New York state middle schools that serve larger - than - average percentages of poor students.

In his words, «No matter how competent the teacher, the academic achievement of lower - class children will, on average, almost inevitably be less than that of middle - class children.»

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

At these schools, the population of entering 9th graders was less likely to be older than usual for their grade, had higher middle - school attendance rates, and had higher average 8th - grade test scores.

«Our evidence suggests that, on average, students do worse academically when they attend middle schools than when they attend K — 8 schools — and that this is true in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.