Sentences with phrase «likely as white»

Black males in Rhode Island are 9.3 times as likely as white males to end up in juvenile detention, according to Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to have uterine fibroids than other women.

When pre-college differences in income and math achievement are taken into account, black and Hispanic students are at least as likely as white students to successfully complete a STEM major.

Black and Hispanic teachers are about twice as likely as white teachers to have been certified through an alternative program, according to national data.»

Why are black students half as likely as white students to be assigned to gifted classrooms in U.S. public schools?

For example, black children are twice as likely as their white peers to have no parent with secure employment.

• Black students were twice as likely as white students to receive out - of - school suspensions.

Chinese pupils from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as white working class pupils to get five good GCSEs, according to new analysis published by the Sutton Trust today.

African - American students in Kentucky, Montana, Utah, and Minnesota were three times more likely to be identified as emotionally disturbed while black students in Louisiana, Washington, Oregon, West Virginia, and North Carolina were more than twice as likely as white students to be targeted for such special programs.

Black children were also three times as likely as white ones, and twice as likely as Hispanic ones, to live in their grandparents» homes.

Among the 1993 cohort, black graduates were just as likely as white graduates to be employed four years later (90 percent versus 89 percent) and slightly more likely to be employed full - time (87 percent versus 81 percent).

The findings could help explain why African - Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to develop dementia.

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).

February 4, 2016 Connective tissue disease increases risk for cardiovascular problems A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

According to a study published last year — which looked at genetic testing among 3,000 breast cancer patients in Pennsylvania and Florida — black patients were less than half as likely as white patients to undergo genetic testing.

A 2013 Pew Research Center study found that black men were six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010 — an increase from 1960, when black men were incarcerated five times as often as white men.

For example, a 2013 Pew Research Center study found that black men were six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010 — an increase from 1960, when black men were incarcerated five times as often as white men.

According to the American Heart Association 2014 Statistical Update, nearly half of all African American adults have some form of CVD, and they are twice as likely as white adults to have a first - ever stroke.

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

Recent events have brought this bias to the fore, where Black Americans are more than twice as likely as White Americans to be killed during encounters with the police.

That black children are twice as likely as white children to be placed in a class for students with intellectual disability.

As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

In a much - quoted study, University of Arizona searcher Mark Chaves found that African - American churches are five times as likely as white churches to say they would apply for public funding if it were available.

Specifically, Hispanic «nones» were nearly twice as likely as their white counterparts to say that religion was «important,» while African - American «nones» were two and a half times as likely.

Black students are twice as likely as white students to report that they fear for their physical safety (28 percent versus 13 percent).

Not exact matches

Similar to Michael Wolff's tell - all, A Higher Loyalty will likely provide an inside look at the workings of the Trump White House, as well as Comey's experiences working under the previous two administrations.

It is their white whale and they're likely just as mythical.

Also, men were more likely to select shades of colors as their favorites (colors with black added), whereas women were more receptive to tints of colors (colors with white added):

Even though the White House has said that «all options are on the table,» the most likely action, banning Venezuela from importing U.S. oil, could come as early as Monday.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

The White House seems to be ignoring pleas from many Republican politicians and industrialists (such as Charles Koch) to avoid broad tariffs, which seem likely to spark an international trade war.

Right now a black baby in South Carolina is twice as likely to die before her first birthday as a white baby.

Gregory Craig, who served as Obama's first White House counsel, said that without an executive order, Obama would likely need the cooperation of Congress to shut down the prison.

And while these illnesses are consistent across demographic lines, people of color are more sensitive to the stigma of a diagnosis and are less likely to get the same level of care as their white peers.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

Don't get us wrong, there probably is an automated trading software when you sign up, it's highly likely to be just a generic white label software; its effectiveness is irrelevant as the scammers already make money at the point of you funding your broker account.

But it seems likely that the fierce intra-administration debates in the weeks leading up to it — which a White House aide described as «absolute chaos» — made it more likely that Trump would act impulsively without properly consulting his team or thinking through the details of the actual unveiling.

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

The likely reason why you were called a bigot is probably because you are accusing these «white Jews» of valuing the nonexistent oil of Israel so much that they'd ally with American Germans, who you represent as being Neo-Nazis, who with their teeny 15 % of the white population control the entire country.

The report found that a black driver who was pulled over was twice as likely to be searched by police as a white driver, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up drugs or illegal weapons.

And even though five times as many white people use drugs in this country as African Americans, the latter are ten times more likely to be arrested for drug offenses.

Typically Greeks identify as White... Jesus though was a first century Jew and likely has a skin color similar to a modern Syrian.

In a recent column, David Brooks made a distinction between «conservative universalists,» such as Flake, and «conservative white identitarians,» who are likely to support Trump.

Even Italians are not «white»... When a movie becomes a global project as this movie was you will most likely have non white characters.

White, young Americans are more than twice as likely as all others to commit lethal violence and then live to reach a happy ending.

As a result, black churches likely have difficulty attracting white worshipers who are more traditional and have a less animated service.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Political scientist Ruth Melkonian - Hoover finds that white evangelicals who worship alongside immigrants are far less likely to view immigrants as a threat (19.6 %) than white evangelicals as a whole (50.7 %).