In Rep. Brian Higgins» district, which includes Buffalo and high - density suburban areas, the wage gap mirrors the 80
percent national gap.
«However, other states with comparatively large black populations like California and Texas kept
the national gap from closing more than it did.
Still, colleges are seeing more students defer admission, and there are now 38
national gap - year informational fairs annually, up from seven in 2008.
And in Reading it's a whopping 40 percentage points - all far in excess of
the national gap of 28.
Our calculations using a school improvement approach based on data from Massachusetts suggest
a national gap of perhaps $ 8 billion a year, concentrated in a few states.
As tables in the report show, in 2009 the sizes of the gaps in most states were not statistically significant from
the national gap, regardless of subject or grade.
For the 5A * - CEM measure,
the national gap is 28 %.
In 2010,
the national gap between regular and premium was just 9 %, or $ 0.24 cents.
The COAG Reform Council's report Indigenous Reform 2012 - 13: five years of performance, shows that over five years,
the national gap to non-Indigenous life expectancy narrowed by 0.8 years for men and just 0.1 years for women.