Sentences with phrase «percent national increase»

That accounts for a 57 percent national increase and a 90 percent jump on the state level.

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U.K. inflation jumped to 1.2 percent year - on - year in November, just beating analyst expectations for a 1.1 percent increase, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

American Express» 2017 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report estimates that from 1997 to 2017, the number of women - owned firms increased by a rate of roughly more than 2.5 times the national average (114 percent vs. 44 percent).

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

Robots and automation are priorities in China, where salaries have increased more than 100 percent over the last 10 years while the national labor force has been shrinking.

The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

Holiday retail sales are expected to increase as much as 4 percent, reaching up to $ 682 billion, according to the National Retail Federation.

In 2012, sales recorded their first significant increase since the recession, rising an estimated 10 percent, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association.

Holiday retail sales in November and December — excluding automobiles, gasoline and restaurants — are expected to increase as much as 4 percent this year, reaching up to $ 682 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, the industry's trade group.

Washington's economy grew 3.7 percent in 2016, the largest increase of any state and nearly 2 1/2 times the national rate.

In fact, the National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to increase by only 3.7 percent, which is down from last year's 4.1 percent growth.

«Now that we know the 5 percent is possible, we have a challenge to maintain, and dare we say, increase the goal,» said Carla Harris, chair of the National Women's Business Council.

The National Retail Federation announced today it expects sales in November and December (excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales) to increase a solid 3.7 percent to $ 630.5 billion — significantly higher than the 10 - year average of 2.5 percent.

While boat theft nationally increased 1 percent in 2016, there are no national figures for boat engine thefts, according to the National Insurance Crimenational figures for boat engine thefts, according to the National Insurance CrimeNational Insurance Crime Bureau.

The national home price index increased 5.8 percent in March, while analysts were expecting home prices to rise by 5.9 percent for the month, according to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates.

The national median existing - home price is expected to increase around 4.4 percent.

Today, sales expectations are much rosier according to Raddon's Small Business National Research: 59 percent of small businesses expect an increase in sales, while only 6 percent expect a decline.

The country's fiscal spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office, may increase the national debt as a percent of GDP to a higher level than Italy in five years.

For Alamo and National Car Rental, favorability was little changed, whereas unfavorability ratings increased from 10 percent to 24 percent and 11 percent to 25 percent, respectively.

That was in sharp contrast with an increase in use of 12.7 percent recorded a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said last week.

Real net national product rose at the rate of 3.7 percent per year from 1879 to 1897, while per - capita net national product increased by 1.5 percent per year.

As Friedman and Schwartz admit, the decade from 1869 to 1879 saw a 3 - percent - perannum increase in money national product, an outstanding real national product growth of 6.8 percent per year in this period, and a phenomenal rise of 4.5 percent per year in real product per capita.

The National Philanthropic Trust, which prepares an annual report tracking the funds, said there were nearly 285,000 donor - advised fund accounts in 2016, an increase of about 7 percent over the prior year.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

-- Ohio National Financial Services today announced a 2.7 percent increase in 2017 core earnings and released positive 2017 financial results.

Single moms: More than 40 percent of babies in the U.S. are born to women who are unmarried — that's a 10 percent increase in the past decade, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

Costs in South Florida increased 1.3 percent in August from a year ago, while the national rate inched up only 0.2 percent, according to the latest data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics..

This number is expected to increase by more than 82,000 by the year 2026, growing by as much as 7 percent, which is the national average for all related occupations combined.

Now it expects those sales at longstanding restaurants to rise 6.5 percent this year, buoyed by price increases it will implement in the fourth quarter and September's national introduction of queso.

Shenzhen and Guangzhou posted increases of 21 percent from a year earlier, while prices climbed 18 percent in Shanghai and 16 percent in Beijing, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed today.

For example, a conservative commentator might concede, grudgingly, that there has been some increase in the share of national income going to the top 10 percent of taxpayers, but then point out that anyone with an income over $ 81,000 is in that top 10 percent.

Flake does nod in the direction of a grand bargain that combines entitlement cuts with tax increases, but he doesn't mention that he was a longtime supporter of replacing the federal tax code with a 23 - percent national sales tax.

In Chile, for example, national savings rates increased from 10 percent in 1986 to 29 percent in 1996.

During the last ten years, combined communicant membership of all Protestant denominations declined by 9.5 percent (4,498,242), while the national population increased by 11.4 percent (24,153,000).

That didn't quite work out on Tuesday because he looked exhausted and like he wasn't quite playing at 100 percent after the knock he took on Friday night, but with that trait and his ever - increasing quality on the pitch, Pulisic will be the central element of the national team moving forward.

In 2001, the USDA concluded that if breastfeeding rates were increased to 75 percent at birth and 50 percent at six months, it would lead to a national government savings of a minimum of $ 3.6 billion (and this only considered a few of the health benefits of breastfeeding, not all of them).

Greeley - Evans School District 6 is also a National Farm to School Network super-star — nearly 25 percent of their food purchases are local, with the rate increasing each year.

The National School Board Association (NSBA), long aligned with the SNA on these nutritional roll - backs, yesterday released the results of a survey of 650 school leaders which reportedly found that, since the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act regulations went into effect, «83.7 percent of school districts saw an increase in plate waste, 81.8 percent had an increase in cost, and 76.5 percent saw a decrease in participation by students.»

Nelson et al., who used a different source, the National Inpatient Survey (NIS), reported an increase in the incidence of circumcision in the 1988 - 2000 period.6 Based on the NIS, Nelson et al. reported a circumcision incidence of 48.3 percent in 1988 - 91, but the NHSD reported an incidence of 58.8 percent in 1989, 59.0 percent in 1990, and 61.1 percent in 1991.

But that national average jumped to 32 percent in 2015 — a 540 percent increase over the course of one generation.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) report a 72 percent increase in the number of cesarean deliveries from 1997 through 2008, which might also explain the enduring popularity of epidurals.

As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.

Home births increased by about 5 percent in 2005 from the year before, according to the latest National Vital Statistics Report published in March.

The union also released the results of a poll conducted by National Opinion Research that found 63 percent of New Yorkers would prefer to see a temporary income tax increase on the state's highest earners (1 percent for those who make more than $ 1 million and 2 percent for those who make over $ 5 million) over education funding cuts of between $ 800 million and $ 1.4 million.

A letter from Shola Olatoye, NYCHA's chair, was sent to tenant association presidents highlighting a 46 percent increase in national funding for public housing from Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Previous analyses have, moreover, suggested that, especially given the increased competition on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left of centre parties and left - leaning independents, that it will be a struggle for Labour to win seats in most, if not all, constituencies if the party's national support levels fall below the ten percent level, as has been shown in similar analyses of recent Sunday Independent - Millward Brown and Irish Times - Ipsos MRBI polls.

According to the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), robocalls have increased about 285 percent since September of 2015.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- National Grid is proposing an 11 percent rate increase for consumers over the next three years.

From April next year, there'll be a one percent increase in the main rate of Class 4 National Insurance Contributions for the self - employed, with another one per cent increase the year after.