Sentences with phrase «fifth of state»

For comparison, this is about one fifth of the state of Colorado, which has at least two different climatic zones.

Logging has affected Pará more than any other region of the Amazon, resulting in the loss of one - fifth of the state's tropical forest cover.

As Oregon's largest public library, Multnomah County Library serves nearly one - fifth of the state's population.

Funding Fundamentals: Chicago and the State A detailed examination of the current funding system's impact on Chicago Public Schools, which educate roughly one - fifth of the state's students.

A fifth of the state's students sat out either the reading or the math tests last year, though New York City's opt - out rate was less than 2 percent.

Just 25 of California's 2,462 high schools account for more than a fifth of the state's dropouts, with the problem heavily concentrated in charter and alternative schools, according to a study being released today by UC Santa Barbara.

In New York, for example, where the movement was the focus of a substantial media campaign, about one - fifth of the state's students didn't take the state's tests in grades 3 through 8 in 2015 and 2016.

Salaries, health care and pension benefits for state workers represent one of the largest and fastest - growing areas of spending, accounting for about one - fifth of all state dollars.

Overall, Cuomo has done little to rock an industry that, according to recent estimates, accounts for a fifth of the state's tax revenues and employs 162,400 workers with an average salary of nearly $ 360,000.

That's just under a fifth of the state's taxpayers, and primarily affects New York City and its tony suburbs.

His office estimated the new limits would cost about a fifth of the state's taxpayers $ 14.3 billion.

Nearly 150 years after his campaign, approximately three - fifths of the states have these «Blaine Amendments.»

Studies put Wisconsin's income tax as more progressive than two - thirds to four - fifths of the states that levy such a tax.

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became the fifth Democrat to say she would skip the State of the Union, citing «all the racism coming from the White House.»

Were these provisions to become law, they could result in some states, legislatively, providing one level of care or protection to some of their citizens and a different level to others — which, could violate the equal protection and fairness requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States of America, known for presiding over the Era of Good Feelings (which sounds more like a Beach Boys song than a historical period).

In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington's attention on his own priorities.

The Tar Heel State seems stuck in fifth place because sometimes it just can't get out of its own way.

The United States, Mexico and Canada failed to resolve any major differences in a fifth round of talks to rework the NAFTA trade deal, drawing a swift complaint from the Trump administration on Tuesday that the lack of progress could doom the process.

The state's unemployment rate of 3.5 % was the seventh lowest in the country, and its Q2 2015 annualized GDP growth rate of 5.2 % was the fifth highest.

The state has the fifth - highest tax burden in the nation, according to the Tax Foundation, contributing to Wisconsin's 26th place ranking in our Cost of Doing Business category compared to 24th four years ago.

Arkansas» November 2015 average weekly wage of $ 689 was the lowest among the states and DC, and the state's 2014 GDP per capita of $ 37,334 was the fifth lowest.

The number of nonfarm payroll jobs in the state increased 2.8 % between November 2014 and November 2015, the fifth - largest increase in the country.

Connecticut's average weekly wage of $ 1,011 was the fourth highest in the country, and the state's 2014 GDP per capita of $ 64,676 was the fifth highest.

Volume for the category climbed 2.2 % in 2014 from the prior year, according to data by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, as American drinkers gave the spirits industry a market share victory over brewers for the fifth straight year.

THE start of the month saw State Government Ministers in Derby for the fifth and last regional Cabinet meeting for this year.

Financial institutions surveyed are: Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, Alliant Credit Union, Ally Bank, America First Credit Union, American Express, Aspiration, Associated Bank, Bank5 Connect, BankDirect, Bank of America, Bank of Internet, Bank of the West, Barclays, BB&T, BBVA Compass, Boeing Employees Credit Union, BMO Harris, Capital One 360, Charles Schwab Bank, Chase, Chime, CIT, Citibank, Citizens Bank, Comerica Bank, Commerce Bank, Connexus Credit Union, Consumers Credit Union, Discover Bank, EverBank, Fidelity, Fifth Third Bank, First Citizens Bank, First National Bank, First Tech Federal Credit Union, GoBank, Golden 1 Credit Union, HSBC Bank USA, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, M&T Bank, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, MetaBank, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pentagon Federal Credit Union, PNC, PurePoint Financial, Qapital, Radius Bank, Regions Bank, Santander Bank, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, Security Service Federal Credit Union, Simple, Star One Credit Union, State Employees» Credit Union of North Carolina, State Farm Bank, Suncoast Credit Union, SunTrust Bank, Synchrony Bank, TCF Bank, TD Bank, Union Bank, UFB Direct, USAA, U.S. Bank, Varo, Wells Fargo, Woodforest National Bank, and Zions Bank.

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

By 1962, the owners were unable to make mortgage payments, and the New York State Employees Retirement System, which had invested a one - fifth share of the property, foreclosed.

The fact that the United States is now in the fifth consecutive year of expansion and that unemployment is now at 4.4 percent doesn't seem to have made trade any more popular.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected last - minute appeals by AARP and three states to intervene and re-argue the need to save the controversial Department of Labor fiduciary rule.

Despite having the fifth - lowest median household income in the U.S., Kentucky is one of the states where residents are less likely to live paycheck to paycheck because the cost of living is so low.

The county's average effective property tax rate of 0.85 % is fifth lowest in the state.

Orange ranked as the fifth least affordable city for renters insurance in the state of Texas.

Amsterdam, 8 September 2015 - Heineken N.V. («HEINEKEN»)(EURONEXT: HEIA; OTCQX: HEINY) today has announced the acquisition of a 50 % shareholding in the Lagunitas Brewing Company, the fifth largest craft brewer in the United States by volume.

... Early polls for the Aug. 28 primary show Arpaio grabbing between one - third and one - fifth of the electorate, behind the establishment - backed front - runner, Rep. Martha McSally, a former Air Force combat pilot, and ahead of another conservative insurgent, state Sen. Kelli Ward -LSB-.]

Based on the stats provided by Natural Resources Canada, the country is the fifth - largest producer of crude oil in the world after the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China.

But collectively, its 27 member states still represent the world's largest single market, accounting for one - fifth of global economic activity.

Worcester ranked as the fifth most expensive city for renters insurance in the state of Massachusetts.

The lawsuit, filed the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York this week, is fifth legal action taken in an attempt to get relief from the tariffs, though it is the first known action to be filed within the United States itself.

The county's average effective tax rate of 1.64 % is fifth lowest in the state.

This monthly update on the Fifth District economy includes timely analysis of labor market, household, business, and real estate conditions at both the state and metro area level.

SUNNYVALE, CA - March 12, 2018 - Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today published its fifth annual State of Security Operations Report 2018, which reveals, for the first time since the report's initial publication, an upward trend across all assessment areas.

Across all of them, it produces one - fifth of the beef, pork and chicken in the United States.

An employee of the company confirmed the details regarding the mining designation of the cards stating that a fifth card, the RX 570 8G OC, will be a gaming - specific version of that line.

There are also 14 states with legislative supermajority (usually three - fifths or two - thirds of the legislature) and voter approval requirements for new taxes.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

► Battles involving the Papal States (2 C, 11 P) ► Crusade of Varna (1 C, 1 P) ► Fifth Crusade (3 C, 1 P) F cont.

The fifth century Church document known as the Indiculus states that «At one time man fully exploited his free will when, using his gifts too freely, he fell and sank into the abyss of sin.

On 23 February, the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, Jr., sent a letter to members of Congress in which he informed them that President Obama had determined that DOMA is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and, as such, will no longer be defended by his administration.