Sentences with phrase «federal study across»

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A 2015 study by the National Institute for Retirement Security, using data from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, found that across all American households, including those without retirement accounts, the median retirement account balance is $ 2,500, and for households near retirement, $ 14,500.

The study, involving 64 wastewater treatment plants across Switzerland, was commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment.

Hoping to parlay such successes into an ambitious program to protect more species across larger swathes of land, a panel composed of representatives from several federal and state agencies and the University of Hawaii, Manoa — the major players that manage or study Hawaiian species — drafted Legacy 2000.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

«Federal funding will be crucial to support research of rare cancers such as eye melanoma as it is likely, as shown in this study, that the impact of such research will extend across the different cancer types,» adds Abdel - Rahman.

The study examines the 2008 economic stimulus payments the U.S. federal government sent to households across the nation.

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with Federal agencies and private - sector stakeholders, is announcing a new National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems, and is hosting an event to bring together stakeholders vital to advancing the NMI.

Under the title «The best of all possible worlds» — a Leibniz quote — it brings into focus the diversity and timeliness of the subject matter currently studied by the scientists at the 88 Leibniz institutions across the Federal Republic of Germany.

POGO's study analyzed the total compensation paid to federal and private sector employees, and annual billing rates for contractor employees across 35 occupational classifications covering over 550 service activities.

Wisconsin has won a competitive federal grant to study why some state schools have had more success than others in narrowing achievement gaps across racial lines and income levels.

The study looked at 25 voucher programs (20 traditional voucher and 5 education savings account programs) across the country and found that these voucher programs significantly complicated the receipt of federal funding for programs in public schools in those states.

Using test score information required by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the study analyzes the effects of segregation in more than 22,000 schools across the country that enroll more than 18 million students.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

The study reports museums across the country have fairly diverse revenue streams, with endowment income (22 %), combined college / university and federal, state and local government support (18 %) and individual and family contributions (11 %) accounting for over half of all revenue.

A new study found strong support across the country for federal funding of research into renewable energy in 2014.

That earlier study reached a similar conclusion, and FUNAI (Fundacao Nacional do Indio, the federal agency in charge of indigenous issues across Brazil) then asked Forest Trends to convene a meeting in February of this year Brasilia to review the implications of that finding.

From 1992 - 1995, Rupert took a special leave of absence to work with the Federal Aboriginal Justice Directorate, studying aboriginal approaches to crime, justice and healing across Canada.

Addressing inequity in outcomes for children across health and education is an issue of timely and significant policy interest at a state and federal level.68, 69 If right@home is effective and demonstrates benefit, the study design enables replicability at scale, with significant implications for the development of early childhood policy and strategy throughout Australia and internationally.

Getting that message across may be difficult in the U.S., where about a third of people aged 18 and older say they sleep six hours or less a night, according to a new federal study.