Sentences with phrase «better than the national rate»

The city's unemployment rate is better than the national rate.

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These are the best ratings in more than 10 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

If you want a job, looking in a geographic area with unemployment rates lower than the national average is probably a good idea.

Another option: The Intelligent Office, a national franchise based in Boulder, Colorado, provides small - business owners with a prestigious address for meetings, as well as phone - answering and mail services, all for about $ 275 a month — far less than the rate for commercial space.

Still, that's better than the national average rate on money market accounts.

«Credit unions continue to provide the best deals, offering over 10 times more interest on checking accounts than regional banks, as well as 573 % higher rates on savings accounts than national banks,» WalletHub says in an emailed summary of the study.

Following the release of National Accounts data, however, which were a good deal stronger than expected and prompted many analysts to conclude that their earlier assessments of a slowing in the economy had been overstated, the exchange rate moved higher against all currencies.

Perhaps most strikingly, the rate of overdoses in West Virginia caused by prescription drugs was about 8.6 times higher in 2014 than in 1999, and annually rose an average of 26.6 % between those years, which was well above the national year - on - year change of 7.8 %.

Both rates are better than national averages.

While Cuomo is a virtual lock to win his 2014 race, with more than $ 30 million in the bank and extremely solid approval ratings statewide, he wants to amass the biggest possible victory he can, the better to make the case for national office should the opportunity arise.

While Erie County's unemployment rate and levels of poverty are better than the state and national averages, not everyone is benefitting from our resurgent economy.

New York's younger voters — those between 18 and 29 — had a voter turnout rate of 42 percent, lower than the national average as well.

Overall composite star ratings, as well as component ratings, are listed for more than 400 STS National Database participants.

«That's 10,000 times better than the National Institutes of Health's recommendation for escape rate for genetically modified organisms,» said Church.

More jeremiad than satire, Sidney Lumet's well - oiled production of Paddy Chayefsky's prophetic masterpiece follows an amoral TV conglomerate that exploits a mentally ill news anchor by turning his low - rated national news show into whorehouse entertainment.

By 2003 the dropout rate had fallen to 13 percent, the percentage of students meeting national norms was up to 41, and the percentage of students testing in the bottom quartile was down to about 24 - better than the nation as a whole.

Speaking at the National Association of Head Teachers» annual conference, schools minister David Laws has said that Ofsted's inspection system make it easier for schools to gain a «Good» or «Outstanding» rating than schools that are in «challenging circumstances».

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the national average.

(The average national pass rate on the Praxis is difficult to calculate, because ETS provides such information largely on an institution - by - institution basis, and passing scores vary by state; some education colleges do better than Western Governors, some not as well.)

The best schools measured by the Department for Education's new «Progress 8» measure have FSM rates much closer to the national average (15.2 %), and are less socially selective, with a third of these schools actually admitting more FSM pupils than their catchment area.

Countries that expect students to perform well on a national examination when they finish secondary school may induce higher rates of reading than countries that do not set clear standards for high school students.

State performance on NAEP remains better than the national average, though a joint study from Harvard University and the conservative Hoover Institution released Monday reported Wisconsin had the fourth - lowest rate of improvement among 41 states studied between 1992 and 2011.

Education did significantly better than the nation as a whole with just a three percent decrease in total school personnel compared to a nine percent increase in the national unemployment rate.

Americans believe the most important national education program should be improving the quality of teaching, which they rate significantly higher than developing better standards, creating better tests, and improving the country's lowest - performing schools.

«Only 15 % of the largest academy chains perform above the national average in terms of progress made by pupils, compared with 44 % of councils, while more than 80 % of maintained schools are rated as «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted.

To answer the question, Peterson and his colleagues tracked gains in test performance between the early 1990s and 2011 in 49 countries and in fact found noticeable progress by U. S. students in math, science, and reading in 4th and 8th grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), but no better than their peers in other countries, who are progressing at least at the same rate.

Their 61.3 % graduation rate is lower than the national as well as the state average.

And 85 percent of gradates attended colleges rated competitive or better, and persisted in college at rates higher than the national average.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

«With more than 700,000 adults taking high school equivalency exams annually and pass rates well below 70 percent in many states, ensuring success on these tests is not only crucial to the personal and professional success of adult learners taking them — it's also vital to the continued strength of our national workforce and economy,» said Peter Cohen, president of McGraw - Hill School Education Group, in a press release today.

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The risk of car theft in Connecticut is close to the national rate, so it's always a good idea to consider comprehensive insurance (or «other than collision»).

That's better than the 0.06 % average national rate.

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Typically online money market rates hover around 0.80 % to 0.85 % for all balances, which is much better than the national average of 0.08 % APY.

Allstate holds an A + (Superior) financial strength rating from A.M. Best and has a customer complaint ratio of 0.77, better than the industry median of 1.00, according to data compiled by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

However, its rate of ID theft is lower than all the other cities mentioned here, and its national ranking in the fraud category is well outside the top 100.

At $ 649 a year, the average cost of North Carolina home insurance is well below the national average of $ 804; with Virginia's average of $ 662, Tennessee's $ 706, and South Carolina's $ 851, Tar Heels even have lower rates than their immediate neighbors.

Since the higher rate also applies to your enrolled debt rather than the settled amount, there is a good chance that you will pay more money for National Debt Relief's services.

Last year, Chairman Bernanke remarked that «lending to potential first - time homebuyers has dropped precipitously, even in parts of the country where unemployment rates and housing conditions are better than the national average.

Access America, PenFed's lone checking option, has tiered interest rates that are better than the national average, though it's possible to get higher rates elsewhere, particularly at top online banks.

For example, on a $ 150,000 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgage using today's national rates, a person with a FICO ® Score of 760 or better will pay $ 147 less per month than a person with a FICO ® Score of 620 — that's a savings of $ 1,764 a year.

GFS is a national debt relief company with more than 13 - years in business and a high Better Business Bureau rating.

But, notes Verrinder, those rates are still much better than the national average.

Eighty - six cents of every dollar raised goes directly into programs — far more than any other national humane group — and part of the reason we were named a «Top - Rated Charity» with an «A» rating from CharityWatch, as well as the «Outstanding Animal Welfare Organization of the Year» by Pet Philanthropy Circle.

The narrower rule would focus on obtaining efficiency improvements through better heat rates at coal plants — an «inside the fenceline» regulation, rather than a sweeping change to the national power mix.

The project will create thousands of good paying jobs for the safest, most highly trained workers of the building trades at a time when construction workers have an unemployment rate higher than the national average.

We're especially proud of helping America's veterans find well - paying jobs after their service, employing them at a rate that is 50 percent higher than the national average.»

Unfortunately, much of that hard - earned momentum was a casualty of the freeze as well as HB 483, which basically tripled setbacks for wind turbines and made future commercial - scale development unviable.The renewable sector is particularly lagging, in the E2 report showing a scant 1.5 percent job growth in Ohio far lower than the national wind and solar rate.

UT's sampling of well sites estimates the national leakage rate associated with the production phase of natural gas extraction to be equivalent to less than half of one percent of total natural gas produced.