Sentences with phrase «better than household»

This is one of the reasons why smaller mutual funds you've never heard of before are selected, and perform better than household name brands.

Besides, her task of that day was to clean her house and my proposal sounded much better than household chores LOL.

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But for households in good financial shape, paying less than 20 % is not nearly as worrisome as one might think.

In his commentary on the economy, his assessments have been nuanced, acknowledging that the better - than - expected data is positive, while pointing out that growth led by highly indebted households is unsustainable.

With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.

An average Target shopper has a median household income of more than US$ 64,000, well over the U.S. average of just above US$ 50,000 last year.

When you're doing the household laundry on Saturday morning, however, there's no reason to think that you do the laundry any better than anybody else does, or that it's somehow demonstrating your commitment to your family to spend hours on that chore instead of taking them to the zoo.

Both have large populations and the growth to accompany it, lots of corporate offices, and do better than average by household income and number of high - earners.

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.

Fairbanks has a better - than - average median household income, though there's a low percentage of residents holding bachelor's degrees.

Although Casper is the best place in Wyoming for a successful 2017 — the median household income is higher and the median home price is lower here than in Cheyenne, for example — there are some worrying statistics.

With the wealthiest Americans better positioned to take advantage of the gains, the wealth of upper - income households in 2013 rose to 6.5 times greater than that of middle - income households, up from 4.5 times in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.

We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

«The (typical) U.S. household is in a much better spot than they were eight years ago,» said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

High income households are already computer equipped — better than 97 % of households in the top income quintile have a computer and virtually all of them are internet connected.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

We do this because we assume there is no more important indicator of an economy's health than jobs; and even though StatsCan's poll of households is a less - than - perfect form of measurement, it's the best we've got.

Since the recession's end, consumer installment loans have grown faster than real - estate secured debt and has been shown to be rising faster than household income as well.

Annual growth is well down from the peaks seen in 1997/98, but it is still much stronger than growth in household disposable income or bank fixed deposits.

This is good for first - time home buyers because FHA loans allow for a low down payment of just 3.5 %, which can help a household with good income but less - than - optimal savings move from renting into homeownership.

Given that a Democrat occupied the Oval Office between 2008 - 2016, and given that the economic condition of 90 % of all households declined during that period, it follows logically that empty promises of a Republican sounded better to the general population of voters than the empty promises of a Democrat.

Further, servicing costs of those households with debt are considerably higher than indicated by the average experience across the household sector, and have risen a good deal over the past ten years.

Debt - free households purchased more expensive homes, put down a larger down payment, and paid a lower mortgage interest rate than indebted households as well.

I think I'm too simple in my thinking that; if you don't like it, DO N'T WATCH... if you don't agree with it, DO N'T CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i see...

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

Did it have to take «Sandy» to give us, what will hopefully be, more than a «teachable moment», with regards to what happens when Republicans «work across the political aisle» with Democrats, for the good of American households, instead of «working the craving» to «occupy» the White House?

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

If a devoted gay couple wants to raise children together, then you'd think that the children would be better off than those from the single parent, divorced parents households that are common.

(12) This trend has been found among the elderly as well; (13) persons in lower - income households also watch considerably more television — an additional half - hour a day in the fall of 1976 — than the average for all individuals.

We muslims don't call our women: Bitches, hores... and the majority of muslim women actually have the choice to choose to wear the veil (if you go to a Catholic church women are asked to wear the veil... nuns are fully covered... even Marry the mother of Jesus used to cover and that is because these women know they are diamonds and you have to really deserve her to be able to see more and that is only gonna be her husband, and parents... If you have a precious and very expensive diamond in your possession don't tell me you would leave it outside of your house but you would leave your trash outside of your house... same thing with women especially and by the way this apply to men as well in Islam... A woman actually is the queen of her household, and when they are so aware of their status within her community, as more like a mother, she is committed to her husband, kids and parents exclusively... she is busy taking care of her loved ones and enjoys it and happy so why you ask her to show you her cleavage if she doesn't think you deserve her... Muslim women are not any different than all women, they only like to wear the veil and not show their beauty to you... what?

But since the little book was thrown into the wagon, most of the coins were lost... It would have been better if you had left the coins for the household servants than that I should have lost them in this way... Goodbye, and pray for me.»

«I want the church family to know that all is well in the Dollar household,» he said, in his first public comments since spending more than 12 hours in jail.

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It's a bit difficult to make chocolate cookies look like anything other than charcoal briquettes in photos, so you'll have to trust me that these soft, chewy, chocolate - ly cookies are sure to become a favorite in your household as well!

Hamilton might well worry about any environment less holy than her household, or her Faith Tabernacle Church, where she is pastor to «100 faithfuls.»

The ideal to aim for is to have such good data about everyone in the family, that your letters would be addressed to named people — and that if a child lives across more than one household, you'd be writing to named people in each household, because all the adults involved in that child's life have significance, and you're engaging successfully with them.

There's nothing better for parents than feeling like their children have a place to play without disrupting the entire household.

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

► When parents were asked about problems that make it difficult for their child to continue participating in sports, 32 % who are less well - off (household incomes less than $ 50,000 / year) say that sports cost too much; while 16 % of parents who are more well - off (household incomes $ 50,000 / year or more) say that sports cost too much.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married parents, biological cohabiting parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.

In fact, good single moms are 62 percent better at lowering the risk of drug abuse by their kids than two - parent households where the father - child relationship is poor.

Currently, 90 % of parents report that their children younger than 2 years watch some form of electronic media.2 By 3 years, almost one - third of children have a television in their bedroom.3 Parents report that they view television as a peacekeeper and a safe activity for their children while they are preparing dinner, getting ready for work, or doing household chores.3 Many parents report feeling better knowing that the programming their children watch has been described as educational.

On the economic front, kids in cohabiting households tend to do better than kids in a single parent house, in part because they have access to two adults who can bring an income or resources into the home.

There are currently more than 6.6 million households across the UK who can not afford to heat their homes, putting them at risk of serious health problems such as heart disease, strokes, respiratory illnesses - such as asthma and bronchitis - and exacerbating common ailments like colds and flu as well as increasing the likelihood of falls and other accidents.

The pressing need to rebalance the UK economy and raise household incomes could well be higher up voters» priority lists than fiscal discipline come the 2015 election.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Reducing pension wealth, which accounts for more than half the accumulated wealth of the UK's better off households, could have far - reaching, unintended, negative implications.

As these are generally focused on poorer households, they may better compensate for the modest cost of the fee than replacing the fee with an income tax would.

«Additional sources of risk to the household sector include slower housing market growth than expected, brought about in part by strong home price growth, as well as a steeper slowdown in auto sales than anticipated.»