Sentences with phrase «for state population»

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In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

But since the 1990s, as the U.S. prison population exploded, new, bigger prisons were built — and states looked for a way to repurpose older ones.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

Phoenix Business Journal noted that the Grand Canyon state does pretty well for its relatively small population.

Solutions are critical not just for the physical health of the population but the state's financial health as well.

Using the latest US Census data, we determined that just nine states — California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia and Florida — account for half of the entire US population.

The US Census Bureau recently released estimates for the major components of population change — natural change (births minus deaths), net domestic migration, and net international migration — for the states between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016.

Post-election indications that Julia Gillard is prepared to look at population needs on a state - by - state basis are good news for WA, where skilled workers are needed.

Mayor David Bing plans to challenge the census findings, saying the city can qualify for more federal and state funding if it can get its population count to 775,000.

For the rest of its electricity consumption, the state's population of 858,000 — which is actually outnumbered by livestock — relies on renewables.

Gimbel considered these commuters, in town for a day or weekend, «the cream of the buying population of the whole United States,» as a business monograph of the time called them.

The population of the United States has been steadily moving south and west for decades.

The time - honored formula for getting rich through marketing was once stated as «Find a need and fill it,» but that required a bit of updating, as greater percentages of our population had their basic needs met.

In addition, states could decide whether to take per capita allotments for their Medicaid programs or block grants for certain populations.

Despite Asia's 4.4 billion people, the United States» much smaller population still remains the largest target for many startups because disposable incomes here are larger.

The US Census Bureau recently released its population estimates for each of the 50 states and Washington, DC, for 2016 and how populations changed from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016.

For the United States, with its population of 320 million at the time of that study, the pure economic payoff was thus only $ 400 per person, while per capita GDP was close to $ 50,000.

Saudis need financing for the war in Yemen and a generous system of state handouts (government spending cuts have limits, especially when some 90 percent of the population is employed by the government).

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Incentivizing states and localities to make getting a professional license faster and cheaper, and standardizing licensing requirements across states and make it easier for very mobile populations — like military spouses — to get up and running in a licensed occupation when they move to a new state

A fairer common future includes a sustainable development agenda, advocacy for small states, empowerment of the 60 % of the Commonwealth population aged 30 and...

I live in a very red state, but very liberal city and I enjoy a low cost of living for now (home prices are on the rise), high salary, and diverse population.

The United States Census Bureau will not have a population number for the July 2017 to July 2018 period until next year.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

As described in this 2015 YouTube video (embedded below), a low social credit score is meant to isolate unruly citizens from the rest of the population and deny them access to state services and benefits via travel bans, increased prices for day - to - day products, higher bank interests, and others.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

«Given the size and growth of the American millennial population, it is critical for city and state leaders to understand the homeownership aspirations of this large demographic,» says Andrew Tam.

UC Santa Cruz Provost Allison Galloway stated that under the current circumstances the university had to decide whether to keep funding the athletic program or to be able to maintain student services for an increasing student population.

It does not come as a surprise that as the state's 13th largest city by population, California's Sunrise Seaport — Stockton — ranked among the more expensive cities for auto insurance.

About 651,000 of those grads live in Michigan — accounting for more than 9.5 % of the state's population that's older than age 24.

The United States Census Bureau is a division of the federal government of the United States Bureau of Commerce that is responsible for conducting the national census at least once every 10 years, in which the population of the United States is counted.

Mixed with Maryland's scarcity of large parcels and access to a large population within a day's drive, it makes the state an attractive place for investors seeking steady returns higher than they can find in low - interest rate bonds.

States that have high shares of adults with bachelor's and advanced degrees, and states that show growth among the working - age population present a greater diversity of potential hires for corporaStates that have high shares of adults with bachelor's and advanced degrees, and states that show growth among the working - age population present a greater diversity of potential hires for corporastates that show growth among the working - age population present a greater diversity of potential hires for corporations.

In Puerto Rico, only 40 percent of the adult population is employed or looking for work, against 63 percent in the rest of the United States.

These five states account for 25 % of the U.S. population and 28 % of its GDP.

It's also one of the smallest states in the nation, clocking in at the bottom 10 for both size and population.

While net overseas migration to NSW has fallen over this period, increased outflows of residents to other states have accounted for around two - thirds of the decline in population growth.

Germany's Chancellor has for 12 years failed to invest enough, prepare for costly climate change goals, or tailor the welfare state to an ageing population.

Thus, according to the presidential decree, the United States for 120 days suspend the refugee - hosting the program for 90 days and close the entrance for people from several countries with a predominantly Muslim population.

The top six states benefiting from the deduction — California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania — account for more than half of the cost of the deduction while making up 38 percent of the population.

For example, if I publish an article stating that the German population was complicit in the holocaust, I can be censored and censured even though it is accurate.

A report from Physicians for Human Rights - Israel states that the barrier imposes «almost - total separation» on the hospitals from the population they are supposed to serve.

Much of the Christian church in the United States finds itself in the grip of the same phenomenon: people drop by occasionally, but an increasing share of the population searches for spirituality in other ways.

Regarding the separation of state and church the Western Countries are secular for decades, but that even whole populations like the Spanish become secular, is a new occurence.

Chang eventually emigrated to the United States on a student visa and became a minister, co-founding a ministry for Korean immigrants at Wiltshire United Method Church in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Korean - American population.

(The NSFG was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is described as a «nationally representative of women 15 - 44 years of age in the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States.»

The most Christian among the industrial nations, the United States, evinces the greatest sympathy for Israel as well as the greatest security for its own Jewish population.

It's more, for example, than the entire female population of the United States.

Yet, by State Department estimates, Christians accounted for up to 10 percent of Syria's population.