Sentences with phrase «giving as a percentage of income»

For more than a decade, giving as a percentage of income to all mainline churches, Protestant as well as Catholic, has declined.

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Therefore, bonds and cash as a percentage of TOTAL NET WORTH is likely even smaller given equity and fixed income investments aren't usually 100 % of one's net worth.

On the basis of these figures, when population and taxes are taken into consideration, giving to religion as a percentage of income declined over these years from 1.29 percent to 0.84 percent — a decline of 35 percent from the 1968 base.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Those Fundamentals require the acceptance of the Consequences, also known as the required Worship: repeating the Word of Witness, observing the five daily prayers, giving a fixed percentage of income to the poor, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and making the pilgrimage to Mecca if possible.

If you have a single jurisdiction that can control the entire corporate tax system, one of the easiest and most common ways to integrate corporate and individual level income taxes is to impose taxes on corporate profits at the corporate level, but then to give recipients of dividends who are subject to domestic income taxes a credit equal to the percentage of income paid by the dividend paying corporation, treating the corporate income tax as a withholding tax that becomes final when dividends are distributed to foreign taxpayers who don't pay domestic income taxes.

In recent decades, religious giving as a percentage of personal income has decreased from about 1.2 percent of personal income in 1963 to less than 0.9 percent of personal income in 2003.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

GDS indicates the highest percentage of gross income given as payment for house maintenance costs.

I would highly recommend that your charitable giving be defined as a percentage of your income.

Most judges who want to can teach a course or a seminar at a law school and receive another $ 25,000 in pay (the ceiling on outside income, apart from investment income and royalties, and a very low ceiling given current law school salaries — which benefits judges, since they can teach less to reach their ceiling, as it is an ever - diminishing percentage of a professor's salary).

Why would a Realtor who is already (by dint of his / her own efforts) making a good living «without» giving away a significant percentage of his / her income on a deal - a-month-or-more standard then decide to start giving away significant money in an effort to gain more business for «less» income per transaction... (has anyone heard of the negative economic principle known as «the principle of diminishing returns»?)