Sentences with phrase «average the lowest spending»

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By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

According to an FAQ page on the CAQ website, Quebec spends about $ 4 billion on business tax credits every year, «and the results are not forthcoming: private investment in Quebec is significantly lower than the Canadian average.»

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The goal is for Mattel to tackle the $ 7 billion Chinese toy category, which has posted strong growth though average per - child spending on toys is low compared to Japan and Western markets.

Account holders in the lowest checking account quintile (those with average balances of less than $ 536) increased their post-refund healthcare spending by a twentyfold factor larger than those with accounts in the highest quintile (balances over $ 3,577).

Low - income households spend three times more of their income than the United States average to heat and cool their homes, according to a release from Nest.

Increasing your average order value will lead to higher margins, all else staying the same, because the cost of revenue for one customer who spends $ 100 is lower than the cost of revenue for five customers who spend $ 20 each.

With cheap robo - taxis available to chauffeur people around cities, households that spend an average of $ 9,000 a year on transportation could lower that outlay to just $ 2,000.

Assuming the average spend per visit at these businesses is around $ 20, the average customer lifetime value of a typical small business is only around $ 50, but for the businesses with the lowest monthly churn rates, it could be 10 times higher -; or $ 200.

Tiffany's comparable store sales declined 1 percent due to lower spending by foreign tourists in the Americas, while analysts on average were expecting an increase of 0.02 percent, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.

These factors allow the firm to analyze things like hours of operation, transportation coverage, reliability, efforts to lower emissions and congestion, and average time spent commuting.

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

Most of the company's reviewers are low - paid contractors overseas who spend on average of just a few seconds on each post.

If you're an average retail investor just looking for some low - cost index funds, you don't need to spend your day glued to the stock ticker.

Now, consumers have to spend the $ 95 / month on average they'll get from lower paycheck withholdings paying down credit card debt.

In Raleigh, for example, high - income households receive an average MID benefit of $ 1,996, while spending on Section 8 and MID benefits for low - income households amount to just $ 213 - the difference between these values is a factor of 9.4.

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

Rockefeller calculated that New York made payments of $ 12,820 per capita, or $ 3,401 higher than the national average, while federal spending in New York was $ 10,395 per capita, $ 329 lower than the U.S. average.

While the average retiree has 25 % lower expenses than non-retirees, some spending categories do actually increase.

Then after 40 years of diligent and above average savings and super low spending, you will be a millionaire.

Yeah, I know he has Washington experience, but he has spent the last four years cutting taxes, balancing the budget, and presiding over a state with a lower - than the - national - average unemployment rate.

For further context, over the last ten years, Arsenal's net spend on transfers has been the fourth lowest of the current 20 Premier League clubs, spending an average of # 1.5 million per season.

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

Erstad spent 1999 in a slump, finishing with career lows in average -LRB-.253), home runs (13) and RBIs (53), and a career high in strikeouts (101).

If he's eating 12 times a day, and each feeding takes on average 30 minutes (and that's the low end of average), you'll be spending 6 hours a day on feeding.

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

When the average passage of two - house bills during the tenures of various governors is compared, Cuomo has so far seen the lowest number — 643 — while the highest — 1,356 — was during the time former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller spent in office.

VAT rate: 17.5 % Income spent on VATable goods: (1240 /.0175) # 7085 Income spent on non-VATable goods: # 8820 - # 7085 = # 1735 So the average person in the lowest income decile spends a * combined total * of # 144 a month on rent, food, clothes for their children, and other direct and indirect taxes?

The announcement of the penalties for senior - level DOC officials comes the same day City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report showing the Department's spending has soared to a record $ 1.36 billion this year, growing 44 percent over the past decade, even as the inmate population hit a record low — an average of 9,500 inmates each day.

On topic questions included whether the administration plans to increase low - income affordable housing production, what actions are required for the administration to count a unit of housing as «preserved», whether housing built with 421 (a) tax credits anywhere in the City should require affordable units, how the de Blasio administration counts housing underway at the end of the Bloomberg administration toward its goal, what was done in this housing complex to «preserve» these units, whether units counted as «preserved» are always on a 30 year agreement, the annual average of 20,000 units created or preserved as set forth in the mayor's ten year goal of 200,000 such units and how money was spent on the 17,000 units created or preserved in 2014.

Those living with mental health problems are often prone to fuel poverty as individuals are often on low or fixed incomes, living in energy inefficient housing and spend more time at home thus have above average energy use.

«We need to let people know that reductions in public spending in Wales are lower than the average in the rest of the UK and a lot lower than England,» he said.

In his Commons statement, Mr Osborne conjured up a trick of which Gordon Brown would have been proud: the average cut in departmental spending will be 19 per cent, lower than the 20 per cent implied in Labour's deficit - reduction strategy.

The average proposed spending increase of 1.4 percent for 2010 - 11 is the lowest in 15 years and continues a downward trend.

When you consider that, on average, low - income households spend nearly 14 % of their total annual income on energy compared to the average household, which spends only 3.5 %, the impact of technology we are celebrating today is very clear.»

«Until recently, the general expenditure on R&D in Kosovo amounted to only approximately 0.1 % of GDP,» the document said — far below the 2010 E.U. average of about 2 % and seven times lower than R&D spending in nearby Croatia.

An extra two hours per day spent standing rather than sitting was associated with approximately 2 % lower average fasting blood sugar levels and 11 % lower average triglycerides (fats in the blood).

But female mongooses spent more than twice as long sniffing the higher mark as the lower one, an average of 5.9 versus 2.4 seconds.

Reporters spent months interviewing patients and parents and visiting homes in 21223, a multiracial community where the average household income of $ 38,911 is lower than in all but two other ZIP codes in Maryland.

For practice in average - spending HRRs, average spending per beneficiary was $ 897 higher for physicians trained in high - vs low - spending regions.

For physicians practicing in high - spending regions, those trained in high - spending regions had an average spending per Medicare beneficiary per year $ 1,926 higher than those trained in low - spending regions.

The Red Cross keeps our expenses low and an average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs.

The average American spends about $ 7 a day on food, although low - income people spend about $ 4, says Dr. Drewnowski.

Recognizing this, the Zarb Commission went with the average expenditures of the lower - spending half of the successful districts.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

Arizona has the second lowest per pupil spending in the nation, and Mesquite has the lowest per pupil funding in southern Arizona, with administrative costs at half the national average.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

Chicago's per - pupil spending in 2012 — 13 was $ 13,400, higher than the national average and what is spent in Los Angeles and Houston, for example, but far lower than what is spent in New York City or Boston.

Specifically, the low projection, which would produce $ 9,519 in per - pupil spending in 2020, is based on an average growth rate of 0.1 percent, similar to the period from 1991 to 1996.

MAP contended that averaging the cost estimates from different panel submissions was more appropriate; taking the average yielded a lower recommended level of spending for each category.