Sentences with phrase «greater percentage of the population»

And demographic changes that affect the age distribution of the population could mask the real state of the job market, too: «if the population is aging, a greater percentage of the population may hit retirement age and willingly retire, which doesn't imply a weaker job market,» CEPR's Evan Butcher and Nicholas Buffie wrote in a blog post this week.

«Conversely, if the population is becoming younger, a greater percentage of the population may enroll in high school or college; yet this tells us nothing about employment opportunities for those who want to work.»

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.

These are the places where well - educated young people make up the greatest percentage of the population (as close to the recruiting equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel as you're liking to get):

Wales will be hit particularly hard as a far greater percentage of our population are recipients of Tax Credits and / or benefits.

The larger the city, the greater the percentage of the population feels lonely; the concept of solitude is ambiguous: for some, it is torture, for others it is a test, and for the third it is a holiday.

Not exact matches

I argued that this great national sport, which claims the devotion of a significant percentage of our population, mirrors in a ritual way some of the worst characteristics of our culture.

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Consequently, NYC, which is very densely populated, will have a higher percentage property tax, on top of the property being valued higher, than, say, Cincinnati, because the population density is quite a bit higher, placing far greater demands on the city services.

But according to the Times, no matter who is in charge, the population percentage changes are expected to be so great that Democrats are almost sure to get a handful of new seats in the Senate.

For example, a man who is stopped and frisked could sue, claiming police unfairly target men if they make up a greater percentage of those stopped than they do the general population.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC - led Federal Government deliberately plans to eliminate a greater percentage of the state's population...

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

Despite representing the greatest percentage of all new HIV infections in each state, neither federal programs nor state health departments have adequately targeted funding to this population.

I think many of us understand that the expectation of «100 % vegan» amongst the entire population is not attainable; however, we would be better off as a whole if we dramatically cut down our animal product intake to make us some greater percentage vegan than where we are now.

The truth of the matter is, that the percentage of Russian women who are looking for their «soulmates» through the internet is no greater than the percentage of women from western countries such as England, Canada, Australia and the United States who are searching the Internet for their future intended!!!! Here is an interesting tidbit: With the population of Russia at approximately 170 million people as compared to the United State's population of more than 250 million people, why isit that you don't see as many dating agencies from other countries?The answer, you guys, is a simple one....

Russia is a very big country and an impressingly great number of profiles on the dating websites is still a very small percentage of women population of the country.

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

«The annual celebration organized by the newspaper El Planeta to recognize leaders of the Hispanic community in Massachusetts is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with friends and to make new acquaintances with colleagues across the Commonwealth working in a wide range of fields in ways that matter to our community,» Reimers said, noting that the Hispanic community represents 10 percent of the state's population and a greater percentage of its children and youth.

That's generally why the districts that might have to pay the most proportionally to their charter schools are the same districts where charter school students make up a greater percentage of the total student population, the data show.

Despite the lower percentages of these and other types of special needs students, Capital Prep's performance scores do not reflect corresponding higher achievement; the school, in fact, has a lower performance index score than Hartford Public Schools has for precisely the population that Capital Prep claims to have achieved great success with.

NHA schools served a greater percentage of people from these populations than the surrounding district did.

Consider also that imported populations represent a great percentage of all of the world's major cities.

Calling themselves the 99 %, they align themselves against the richest 1 % of the US population, who control a percentage of US wealth and income unmatched since the Great Depression.

Specifically, the percentage of African - American children who enter the system and remain in out - of - home care is greater than their proportion of the country's population (Anderson, 1997).

ADVERSE SELECTION Occurs when plan enrollees include a higher percentage of high - risk individuals than are in the average population, resulting in the potential for greater health care utilization and, therefore, increased costs.

Looking at the number of minorities in the community as a percentage of the total population compared to the percentage of minorities at the development, the court decided the prohibition on leasing had a greater impact on minorities than on whites.