Sentences with phrase «fraction of one's income»

Here, we can pay nearly double the going rate and spend a tiny fraction of our income on help.

It's a fixed fraction of your income for 10 years.

Eventually, as the snow turns into glacier ice, the reflected fraction of incoming radiation drops to as low as one half or less.

It came up with photosynthesis that still manages to harness only a very tiny fraction of the incoming sunlight.

Capturing just a tiny fraction of the incoming solar energy is enough to meet human energy needs (and wind energy is a product of the incoming solar energy as well).

This striking result... stands in sharp contrast to previous work... The main reason is that lower income households derive a large fraction of income from government transfers and, reflecting the reality that these are generally indexed to inflation, we hold the transfers constant in real terms.

While this characteristic allows neutrinos produced at Fermilab to travel 500 miles through the rocks below the Earth's surface, it also means that only a very tiny fraction of the incoming particles interact with the NOvA detector — a behemoth 50 feet tall, 50 feet wide and 200 feet long — located in Ash River, Minnesota.

moso, of those helping overseas, we support MSF, which seems to have no agenda other than to give help where urgently needed and which, unlike many NGOs, uses all but a very small fraction of its income to provide on - the - ground help.

We find that at intermediate canyon widths, a large fraction of incoming wave energy can be dissipated, which can be explained as a consequence of the increase in ray density and, for near - critical slope canyons, increase in vertical wave number, which leads to lower Richardson number followed by instability.

Apple probably doesn't give a hang about whether it sells ebooks or not; it's a tiny fraction of their income.

The fraction of incoming college freshmen surveyed annually by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA who reported that «becoming successful in a business of my own» was «essential» or «very important» to them declined from 52.1 percent in 1988 to 41 percent in 2004.

Nate's always been a brilliant money manager, and was already living off a fraction of his income.

Giving, as a fraction of our income, rose for most of the 20th century and then began to decline in the last decades of the century.

The peak of our generosity as a fraction of our income nationwide was in 1965.

Even if you didn't allow a 100 % + income tax, if it was at 95 % for a wealthy individual that person may be inclined to live a life of leisure rather then working all day to make a fraction of their income.

These factors have decreased the region's albedo, or the fraction of incoming light that Earth reflects back into space — a change that the CERES instruments are able to measure.

For those of us who spend only a fraction of our income on food, the high prices are troublesome.

The best explanation was that some fraction of incoming muon neutrinos had switched to other flavors en route.

The possibility to break out the isolation of being unemployed and sitting at home on a fraction of the income that people were used to can be counteract by actively join a Foundation, Charitable Organisation or any other institute that can offer a renewed sense of self - worth and purpose.

At the same time, the government would implement a new income - contingent loan (ICL) system that enabled all students to access significantly more funds while enrolled, with zero - real - interest loans paid back as a fraction of income only after graduates begun earning above a minimum level.

Including Madoff, these were not the sorts of people that were big spenders as a fraction of their income.

Prudent advice has become: You should always save some fraction of your income.

There are few people who have the discipline to live at such a fraction of their income.

One is the ice sheet's albedo — the fraction of incoming solar radiation that is reflected from the surface of the ice sheet.

That means a silver plan is still going to be the best deal, since you will be able to get a rich set of benefits for a fraction of your income.

All you have to do is regularly invest a fraction of your income in a child plan to ensure you have sufficient funds in the times ahead when your child needs it the most.

«Sometimes, it's hard to realize that if everyone stepped up and donated a fraction of their income, together, we can make a huge difference,» says Susiwala.

Using median household income data for Phoenix, we can calculate the fraction of income the median household would use to pay rent at the median monthly gross rent rate.

That's not great news for renters, unfortunately, who have seen their fraction of incomes absorbed by housing costs increase from 25 percent to 30 percent in the space of just a few years.