Sentences with phrase «halve average family»

The report said the low - cost student pass has helped halve average family transportation costs by $ 23 a month.

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Parents still foot more than half of wedding costs, the survey found, with the bride's family contributing 44 percent on average and the groom's, 13 percent.

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

Meanwhile, the average American family in 1986 was making nearly half of what the Oracle of Omaha was earning in salary; the median household income in 1986 was $ 24,900.

(The average American eats meals with friends, family or neighbors half as often as he or she did 50 years ago.)

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average teen spends seven and a half hours each day utilizing some form of mass media.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

She spends, on average, a week and a half out of every month in China running the factory along with family members who live there and operate the company on a daily / weekly / yearly basis.

For example, the average income of recipient families in Pennsylvania was only $ 29,000, just under half of the state's income threshold at the time.

Selman and Elizabeth's eagerness to create the guide also springs from a depressing fact: According to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study of 8 - to 18 - year - olds, students outside of school spend a huge amount of time each day — more than seven and a half hours on average — using media.

My own and other studies show that children from low - income families enter kindergarten a year to a year and a half, on average, behind middle - class children in their language and many other cognitive skills.This is a gigantic lag considering that they are only five to six years old.

The average tuition — the sticker price that universities advertise — is equivalent to approximately half of median family income.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

The nonpartisan Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee reported in 2010 that the average scholarship recipient's family earned only $ 29,000 annually, less than half what the program allowed at the time.

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

Once diagnosed a person's average life expectancy is eight years, at least half of which is often spent at home with a family member as caregiver.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

Japan's notoriously small living spaces --- the average single family home in Japan is half the size of the US average --- and the introduction of the iPad last April have caused many to digitize their large print libraries to be read on the compact new tablets.

Japan's notoriously small living spaces --- the average single family home in Japan is half the size of the US average --- and the introduction of the iPad last April have caused many to...

The average home costs almost $ 500,000, which is four and a half times the average family income.

So $ 1M represents half an average life's work for a family.

Otherwise, Monkey Forest is a great half - day out and is suitable for adults, children, families, and elders with average walking competence.

The research also reveals what the profile of the average UK gamer may look like — over half of gamers surveyed admitted that they choose which console to purchase solely based on family and friends, while a third stated that they make their decision based on graphics and console performance.

For example, my understanding is that the average European family uses half the energy we use.

The average grant was estimated to cover less than half of the average home heating costs for a household this winter, meaning that many low - income families and seniors had fewer resources available to meet other basic needs.

An average family of four that decides to cut their meat intake in half could avoid roughly three tons of emissions annually.

If the family law legal battle cost half of the current average allowing roughly twice as many combatants to afford it, the family lawyers could handle twice as many clients in half the time per client, and would lose no income, and the clients would get the services of lawyers over the services of paralegals.

It indicated that those born into large or single parent families with low incomes and poor housing were much less likely to succeed in school, were likely to be on average three and a half years behind other children in reading skills and were more likely to exhibit behavioural problems in class.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22

In order to serve all the women currently obtaining contraceptive services at Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide, other types of safety - net family planning providers would have to increase their client caseloads by 47 %, on average.2 Federally qualified health center (FQHC) sites offering contraceptive care, hospital sites and others would have to increase their capacity by more than half (see chart 1).2 Sites operated by public health departments nationwide would have to increase their contraceptive client caseloads by a lesser proportion.

Nearly half of families that start out the program drop out before the end - it takes on average 11 or 12 weeks for families to complete the program.

The average pay for child care teachers is barely more than $ 10 per hour, lower than for most other jobs, including parking lot attendants and dog walkers.26 These low wages contribute to economic insecurity among the child care and early education workforce, with one in seven living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.27 Currently, about half of people working in the child care sector rely on public benefit programs such as Medicaid and nutrition assistance.28 Low pay contributes to high turnover rates, which can threaten quality in early childhood programs during children's critical developmental period.

More than half of black and Hispanic children live in low - income families, compared to less than 20 percent of Asian and white children; the state average is 32 percent.

According to the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, on average, MFTs have individuals filling up at least half of their caseload.

Property values for single - family homes within a half - mile of light rail stations in south Minneapolis are, on average, $ 5,000 higher than comparable homes in a control group, according to research by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies.

The average sales price of a new manufactured home is $ 70,600 — half the cost per square foot as a site - built home — and manufactured homes represent nine percent of new, single - family home starts.

Average single family home prices in the Denver Metro area topped a half million dollars in February 2018 at $ 502,986.

With almost half a million families taking advantage of our enhanced Home Affordable Refinance Program — standing to save on average $ 2,500 per year — and more than 51,000 applications for the FHA Streamline Refinance Program in the first ten days following the recent premium changes, it's clear that the Administration's efforts continue to provide significant positive benefits.»

Averaged over those years, the expected length of stay in a single - family home is about 11 and a half years for first - time buyers, compared to 15 years for buyers who have owned a home before.

Child care costs and the average employee contribution for family health insurance are higher here than in half of the states.

The average home listing price is lower here than in more than half of the states — as is the average employee contribution for family health insurance.

The average employee contribution for family health insurance is higher in Colorado than in more than half of the states.