Sentences with phrase «growing percentage of the population»

A growing percentage of the population is deciding to take up a vegan diet, but it is not yet absolutely clear from a scientific point of view what advantages and disadvantages are associated with such a decision.

«It appears that a growing percentage of the population has that kind of money to spend,» says Polzler.

Not exact matches

According to the latest census, the Asian population in the United States grew by 43.3 % between 2000 and 2010, the largest percentage increase of any ethnic or racial group.

If we grow more food, to reduce hunger, this may simply lead to more people and the continuation of the same control in the system which is the same percentage of the population hungry.

The distinction between persons of a homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they did not choose.

Just recognize that the atheist population is a growing percentage of those out there... and though there are the extremes of them, there are an equal amount of total Jeebus freaks too.

An example being how we are to maintain a healthy world economy when fewer and fewer percentages of our population are needed to grow all the food, manufacture all the goods, and service all the needs of society during a time, within the next 60 years, of ultimately a shrinking population.

There are signs of a growing public concern in America, too, where a much higher percentage of the population is connected with one or the other of the churches.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

If the percentage of Americans attending church is stable, aggregate church membership should have increased as the American population grew.

«The Orthodox community is growing as a percentage of the population — and a percentage of the vote — every single day,» Mr. Hikind told The Observer last week.

In half of the districts, the minority population grew by at least 5 percentage points.

Amirav's goal is to tweak this process to better suit the energy needs of a world population that by 2050 is expected to reach 9 billion, a growing percentage of which will want to drive their own cars.

Even if progressively smaller percentages of the growing elderly population develop dementia in years to come, Haaga says, Alzheimer's «is already the most expensive disease in the U.S., and it will continue to grow.»

As a population grows, larger numbers of combatants die in wars, but those slain represent a smaller average percentage of the total population, say Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and Charles Hildebolt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

As the percentage of thyroid disorders among the population steadily grows, the awareness about the importance of this organ and its functions increases as well.

In other words, the lucky (but small) percentage of the population that lives near the ocean (a good source of magnesium) and eats foods grown in magnesium rich soil, drinks magnesium rich water, and doesn't suffer from stress or consume sugar or caffeine might be ok... but the rest of us might need some additional magnesium.

Malta's research is supported by additional studies suggesting seniors account for more than 10 percent of the Internet population (as of 2011) and the percentage of seniors using the Internet daily has grown from 30 percent to 57 percent between 2007 and 2012.

Given standardized coefficients, to have an equivalent change in boundary participation to the Wilson boost, the poverty rate would have to be about 70 percentage points higher, or share of the population that is African American would have to be about 84 percentage points higher or growing by about 32 percentage points over the last five years.

One bright spot in the enrollment figures is that a growing percentage of students in teacher preparation programs are from minority backgrounds, although they are still a long way from reflecting the student population in California, which is 25 percent white.

This report finds that while the population of teachers of color overall is growing, Black and Native American teachers are a declining share of the teacher workforce and the gap between the percentage of Latinx teachers and students is larger than for any other racial or ethnic group.

Expectations have been raised, the student population has grown to more than 24,000 and a higher percentage of students live in or near poverty.

The United States Department of Education highlights this phenomenon when he says, «the percentage of students of color in US public schools has doubled in the 30 years between 1973 and 2004, growing from 22 to 43 percent of the school population».

While the percentage of Latinx students is high and growing, less than 8 percent of the nation's teachers identify as such.5 The recent increase in the Latinx population means that the teacher diversity gap — as measured by subtracting the percentage of teachers6 of a certain race or ethnicity from the percentage of students7 of that same race or ethnicity — is largest for Latinx students.

Most U.S. population growth comes from multicultural consumers, and 55 % of women are interested in gender / sexual orientation diversity in their stories, with that percentage growing at each younger generation.

It grows at a rate of about a percentage point of population annually.

Finally, we looked at the percentage of the population from newborn to 9 years old, to make sure your kids will have fun with friends their age as they grow up.

Housing costs on Vancouver Island, like much of the rest of Canada, are now out of the price range of a growing percentage of the working population.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.