In the past several years, courts of most states have been forced to operate with at least 10
percent less funding than they had back in 2007, resulting in frozen or reduced salaries for judges and staff, furloughs, or a cutting back of hours of operation.
Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City claims New York City charter schools receive 19
percent less funding than district schools.
The city's charter students and their dedicated teachers are achieving great results, despite receiving 40
percent less funding than the district schools.
Along with these major investments in school choice, the Department of Education as a whole would receive 13
percent less funding than last year, a reduction of $ 9 billion.
Districts serving the highest amount of minority students receive 15
percent less funding than districts with higher white populations, according to the Times report.
Additionally, Stevenson did it on 30
percent less funding per student than three surrounding districts.
Are they aware that charters in Detroit, Indianapolis, and elsewhere already receive at least 40
percent less funding than traditional district schools?
Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28
percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.
Not exact matches
Some 80
percent of those in the know about their scores, moreover, considered their
funding process to have been smooth, and half of those owners indicated that they were
less likely to turn to personal savings to grow their companies.
But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40
percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive
less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.
Updegrave adds, «As for choosing investments for your portfolio, I recommend you focus mostly, if not exclusively, on broadly diversified low - cost index
funds or ETFs, many of which charge just.2
percent of assets or
less in annual expenses.
While many believe venture capitalists are the best source for small businesses,
less than 2
percent will ever get
funds from them.
The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3
percent of venture
funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim
less than 1
percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.
The
fund declined last month, bringing its 2018 performance through March to a loss of 8.6
percent and assets under management to $ 8.2 billion,
less than half its 2015 peak.
Our own research reveals that
less than 50
percent of Millennials have invested in an emergency
fund.
Traders on the fed
funds futures market now are indicating a
less than 50
percent chance that the central bank will move three times this year.
Fidelity Charitable, the nonprofit arm of Fidelity Investments that runs its donor - advised
fund program, found that 71
percent of millennial women give to charity based on the moment while
less than half of baby boomer women do so.
Equity you can expect to give up: Usually
less than 20
percent (convertible debt notes are often employed for this type of
funding).
The bad: Total VC
funding across all technology sectors was roughly 40
percent less than it was at the end of June» 08, with about $ 4 billion in
funding received in the second quarter of 2009 versus $ 7 billion in Q2 2008.
Earning even a small amount of income in your retirement years means you don't have to rely 100
percent on your savings to
fund your lifestyle, and that in turn means you may be able to retire with a little
less in the bank.
Your chances of raising money from any given VC
fund are
less than 0.5
percent.
Thirty years ago, index
funds were
less than one
percent of assets under management, and today they (along with other passive vehicles such as exchange - traded
funds) are about one - third.
Facing redemptions of
less than 2
percent of assets, it's possible that many bond
funds could have met redemptions simply by drawing down cash or other liquid assets (after all, bond mutual
funds held more than $ 200 billion in short - term liquid assets at the end of May).
Though the numbers look big, our weekly estimates (which cover more than 95
percent of industry assets) show that redemptions from bond mutual
funds in June totaled
less than 2
percent of the nearly $ 3.8 trillion invested in bond
funds.
Bond
fund withdrawals might have had a greater effect on markets where there is
less trading, such as municipal securities — but even there, redemptions from bond
funds would have accounted for
less than 10
percent of the primary dealers» trading.
What is exceptional is the 15.3
percent achieved by the second
fund — and 15
percent for the third
fund to date — during much
less volatile periods (and, one would think,
less conducive to this type of strategy).
Even if an actively managed
fund also achieves a 23
percent return, the index
fund will still make you more money, because you're paying
less in fees.
For example, as of this writing, the TD Canadian Money Market
Fund sports an yield of 0.41
percent which is much
less than the typical 1.0
percent paid by discount broker HISAs.
«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index
fund is still
less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20
percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.
For example: Scotia iTrade charges an early redemption fee of 1
percent (minimum of $ 38.88) on all mutual
funds other than Scotia and Dynamic Funds held for less than 90
funds other than Scotia and Dynamic
Funds held for less than 90
Funds held for
less than 90 days.
The one - day loss for many
funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while
less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10
percent of their current yield.
They could keep any
funds that are
less than 3
percent of revenue.
Women and minority - led startups make up some 40
percent of founders, yet receive
less than five
percent of
funding.
Is not leveraged (except certain short - term loans equal to
less than 15
percent of the
fund's aggregate capital contributions and uncalled committed capital, for a non-renewable term of no longer than 120 calendar days);
The VA
funding fee is likely to be cheaper than private mortgage insurance if you have
less than 20
percent home equity, especially if your credit score isn't stratospheric.
About 26
percent had
less than $ 50,000 saved and, overall, 54
percent said they lacked sufficient retirement
funds.
In other words, the individual stocks, bonds, and
funds you choose or when you buy or sell is
less important to your ultimate return than the
percent allocated to various asset classes.
There are an estimated 1.2 million registered public charities in the United States.5 The 979 charities that sponsor donor - advised
funds tracked in this report comprise
less than 1 / 10th of one
percent of those organizations.
Continued volatility in the stock market left broad - market exchange - traded
funds nearly unchanged in November, with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) gaining
less than half a
percent for the month.
Bill Ackman's hedge
fund, Pershing Square Capital Management LP, acquired 9.7
percent of Allergan Inc. in
less than two months without having to disclose this fact until yesterday.
Even if such an alliance is a long shot, a president who received
less than 10
percent of the African - American vote has little to lose by emphasizing the increased availability of
funds for black church social - service programs.
In December 2013, another KSHF survey found that most school meal programs (88
percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet nutrition standards, but only 42
percent of respondents reported that they had
funding for capital purchases, and
less than half of those had a budget that was adequate to meet their equipment needs.
He said that property owners in the Addison Park District pay
less than 6
percent of every property tax dollar to
fund recreational programs and park facilities.
Illinois would receive about 15
percent less than the current
funding, according to the USDA.
The Vice President on what the current administration has down with little resources available to it said, «Today, with
less revenue, we have increased capital
funding by 400
percent as the minister has said, in power, works and housing, in defence, transportation, agriculture.
The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public -
funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or
less; and more than 90
percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.
At the same time, the tax cap — due to allow for an increase of
less than 1
percent in the levy this year — has constricted the ability of districts to raise
funds.
Point of reference: Last year, the executive budget proposal was $ 134 billion (all
funds), or $ 3.7 billion
less than this year for a 2.3
percent decrease.
Although
less than 9
percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59
percent of total city spending get 92
percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal
funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.
At Re / Code, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher report that Reddit is in the process of raising «a big
funding round» based on selling «
less than 10
percent of the company for more than $ 50 million.»