Sentences with phrase «other portions of the population»

San Antonio was No. 1, possibly because of the area's heavy presence of members of the military, who are more likely to carry higher credit card debt than other portions of the population.

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Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

In other words, QE benefited the wealthiest portion of the population, which dominates stock - ownership, while the bottom - 90 % of the population increasingly has been forced to dig into their savings to help meet non-discretionary expenses, such as food, energy and housing.

Given that the U.S. produces more engineers annually than any other country, I think Nye's statement, «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back» is terribly overblown.

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

Laws prohibiting physician - assisted suicide, he concludes, do «injury» to some citizens for no other reason than «to satisfy the moral or religious precepts of a portion of the population.»

In a small portion of the population caffeine sensitivity can result in a number of effects not seen in most other people.

Each state is allotted a portion of these seats based on the size of its population relative to the other states.

you are also completely discounting a large portion of the city's population, who reside in the FOUR other boroughs (brooklyn, bronx, queens, staten island).

Geneticists say large population databases will be essential to pin down what portion of people carrying potentially harmful mutations will develop disease, and if the effects can be mitigated by other genes, for example.

Getting help for a mental health disorder first involves removing the stigma and discrimination around mental health — depression, anxiety and other mood disorders are not signs of weakness, they are common conditions that a large portion of the population is dealing with daily.

But students from these states are a small portion of the U.S. student population, and other states rank much lower down the international list.

The data could not be any clearer, Achievement First — Hartford and Hartford's other charter schools are not serving a major segment of portion of Hartford's population.

Regression models with nationally representative data revealed that children from Mexican immigrant families were overrepresented in parental care and underrepresented in center - based care compared to their native peers from other race / ethnic populations, which helped to explain a significant but small portion of their generally lower rates of both math achievement and externalizing symptoms in kindergarten.

I have read that the 80 - year - old - plus portion of the population is increasing faster than any other segment.

The EPF, PPF and other pension plans only cover a small portion of the population.

But, just like many other tech innovations, the benefits will be largely conferred to the same portions of the population that read GigaOM daily.

The first observation is that the conference provided an opportunity for a collective of interested non-Indigenous organisations (including the National Mental Health Commission) and representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (including an Arnhem Land Elder and law custodian and members of the sexuality and gender diverse population), to gather in the same space to share their concerns and listen to each other, on an issue that is at catastrophic portions.

Other countries also have demonstrated heterogenous risk among different portions of their population.