Sentences with phrase «few percent points»

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Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

If you reach the point where you care about the last few percent, you'll be amazed at the power of the 1/99 rule.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

As for the percentage of the amount raised, Robb says 5 percent is typical, though he points out that there are very few hard and fast rules.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

Among the findings: Results from the federally - funded General Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their lives.

According to separate analysis by DynamicAction, retailers ahead of Black Friday were already selling about 21 percent fewer items at full price than they did at the same point in 2014.

Twenty - six percent plan capital outlays in the next few months, down three points from February.

In this unfortunate tipping point, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can't afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to sell.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell eight points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,811 in the first few minutes of trading Thursday.

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

The unemployment rate for married men is just over 3 percent (and for married women not much higher), which is why relatively few married - couple families in 1992 had incomes below $ 16,960, the cut - off point defining the bottom 20 percent.

Christianity Today also points out that there are far fewer evangelicals than estimated: 8.9 percent in Costa Rica, not the estimated 24 percent; 19.3 percent in Guatemala, instead of twice that many.

I know, I know, small sample size, blah, blah, blah, but from March 1 on, Wall averaged 23 / 5/8 with fewer than three turnovers a game while shooting 47 percent from the field and a not - terrible 34 percent from 3 - point range.

He preaches that 40 percent of NFL games are decided by six or fewer points and that 30 percent are by three or fewer points.

Our analysis found teams featuring defenses allowing fewer than 18 points per game had gone 55 - 41 against the spread (57.3 percent) since 2003.

It is important to point out that the 90 - 99 percent test accuracy claims are generally true once a woman is further along in a pregnancy — just not during the first few days.

He fares just a few percentage points better against Gillibrand than Long and Maragos in a poll with a 2.5 percent margin of error.

Low wage earners would pay less than a percent on their income and it would work up to a few percentage points for higher earners, they propose.

When the Club for Growth's $ 287,000 in TV ads aimed at swaying conservative - leaning voters on Hoffman's behalf first hit the airwaves a few weeks ago, Scozzafava enjoyed a slim but statistically significant edge in this Republican - leaning district: A Siena survey released earlier this month, before the Club for Growth and Hoffman ads hit the airwaves, found she held a 7 - point edge over Owens, 35 - 28 percent.

The county executive pointed to a study by E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, who has said housing values in the state could decline by up to 20 percent if fewer people are unable to afford more expensive homes and instead put money toward taxes.

Over the past few months, various polls measured Cuomo's lead over Paladino as anywhere from 29 percent to 45 percent, but today's Rasmussen poll of 500 likely voters puts Cuomo up by «only» sixteen points.

Election Day is closing fast and a new CNN Opinion Research Corp. poll, released a few hours ago, shows that only 31 percent of Americans approve of how Republicans are handling their jobs, 3 points less than how they think Democrats are performing.

Strangely, in a few percent of the offspring of Lolle and Pruitt's mutants, one copy of hothead spontaneously reverted to the normal version, repairing its point mutation.

Diebold's Mark Radke points out that during the recall election for the governor of California last year, fewer than 1 percent of the voters that used Diebold machines submitted blank ballots — a rate well below that for optical - scan cards (2.7 percent) and punch cards (6.3 percent).

Almost all people in the mood / behavior group, or 91 percent, experienced symptoms of memory and thinking decline at some point, but fewer in the cognition group experienced mood and behavior symptoms throughout their disease, with 55 percent experiencing behavior symptoms and 64 percent experiencing mood symptoms at some point.

And last year cats earned a few more points toward a healthy - pet pedigree when researchers at the University of Minnesota found that people whod never owned a cat had a 40 percent higher risk of death from heart attack than cat owners.

It'll take a few weeks to sort through the rubble and pull out the worthy new studies, but I figured I'd start with a University of Alberta study on back pain, since it's something that will afflict about 80 percent of North Americans at some point in their lives.

Add to that the fact that they are made with 100 % vegetables allowing me to have up to 90 % fewer calories than pasta (varieties have 65 percent to 90 percent fewer calories per serving than the leading brand of spaghetti) and they are the perfect starting point for my Zucchini Pad Thai!

For male teachers with fewer than three years of experience, the estimated change in the probability of switching districts for a 10 percent increase in salary is 2.6 percentage points; for men with three to five years of experience, the estimated change for a salary increase of the same magnitude is 3.4 percentage points; for still more experienced male teachers, financial effects trail off, down to essentially zero for those with more than 20 years of experience.

The graduation rate — as opposed to the drop - out rate, which is calculated differently — was up a few percentage points in 2009 to 70 percent, the district says.

Districtwide, fewer than 30 percent of African American students were reading at grade level, compared to 87 percent of whites, a 57 - percentage - point gap.

Moreover, the benefits appear to be substantial: Students scored just over two points (or 2 percent of the international standard deviation) higher for every one student fewer in their class.

Although math is less language - based than reading, the testing rates for English Learners in math are only a few points higher: 72 percent of English Learners were tested in math in 1997 - 98; 86 percent in 2000 - 01.

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

It also offers a few data points: In the District and 11 states that received Race to the Top grants in 2010, graduation rates rose from 76.5 percent to 79.9 percent.

Of the 123 seniors who graduated from Roosevelt on June 12 or are scheduled to graduate in August, just 27 started at the Northwest Washington school at some point during their freshman year; 78 percent of the graduates spent three or fewer years in the school.

The percentage of low - income fourth - graders in all three districts passing ISTEP was, on average, 20 percentage points lower than for middle - class peers, just a few points lower than the 24.7 percent gap statewide.

By doing so, the new Panamera has 50 - percent fewer weld points than the Macan.

With a few clicks I was able to tell the world: «I've read 1 percent of Decision Points by George W. Bush.»

For KUBVB %, a Kboards poll had given us a starting point of 50 % borrows / 50 % buys, which we later validated to within a few percent against Amazon's KU 1.0 payout and pot size announcement.

For instance, if you stop using the card and continue to pay it down month after month until it is eventually at a $ 0 balance or at least below 30 percent utilization, your score will very gradually increase by a few points here and there, assuming all of your other credit accounts are in good standing.

Simply by shifting existing debt around to reduce the utilization percentage on individual cards you can expect to increase the score by a few points or more — particularly when bringing all cards to below 50 percent — yet it's going to take an actual reduction in your overall debt to drop that combined utilization to where your score rises significantly.

But you can squeeze a few more points out of it by leaving 1, 2, 3 percent up to 9, 10 percent on your card statement.

Income riders usually cost a few basis points each year — one percent (give or take) is a common amount.

This discount may save a few percent on your renters, but the real savings come from saving several percentage points on the auto policy.