Sentences with phrase «percent of singles this year»

Amid the current, quite serious concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury — as if saving one - tenth of 1 percent of a single year's budget would solve our problems.

Also, did you know that the top resolution for 64 percent of singles this year was to find love in 2013?

Not exact matches

Last year, single female homeowners made up 18 percent of household composition in the association's Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, compared to 10 percent for single men.

By 2013, the most current year data is available, the percentage of single - person households soared to 27.4 percent, the highest in U.S. history.

SR: Eighty - five percent of our growth in next five years will come from our own stores and online, while wholesale [department and other big - box stores] will grow single digits [percentage].

World stocks rose 20 percent last year, significantly outpacing the average on bond markets, meaning the relative value of funds» equity holdings has increased without a single new share being bought.

Nearly half of these hedgies posted only single - digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.

«Seventy - three percent of tax filers receive an average tax refund on the order of $ 3,000» — and for some 40 percent of families «this is the single largest cash infusion of the entire year.»

Sales of both single family homes and condominiums in metro Detroit were down 3.1 percent in February from a year ago, according to Realcomp, the area's multiple listing service (that encompasses Oakland, Wayne, Livingston and Macomb counties).

First - time buyers comprised 38 percent of single - family home purchases last year, their biggest share in the market since 2000, according to Bloomberg.

However, because the income return in each of these years was sizable, no single year resulted in a total return loss greater than 3 percent.

Zooming in on the five risks presented in this year's Global Opportunity Report, 42 percent of the leaders we asked across the world singled out youth unemployment as the most pressing issue to solve.

The top two firms closed nearly 25 percent of all single family home sales last year.

Since its low of 666 in March 2009, the S&P 500 has climbed a whopping 260 percent, with not a single year of losses.

During the best periods in history, the return has been 32 percent for a 50/50 mixture of stocks and bonds in a single year.

Not a single quarter this year is expected to produce earnings growth of less than 17 or 18 percent.

«Distressed homes — foreclosures and short sales — represented 8 percent of August sales, remaining in the single - digits for the second straight month and down from 12 percent a year ago.

Sales of existing single - family homes in California had a strong bounce back in February, with sales of 422,910 units (up 1.1 percent year to date year to date and up 5.4 percent year to year).

Sales of single - family homes in Santa Rosa in March 2018 included 142 units, up 4.8 percent year to date, and up 2.9 percent year to year.

Sales of single - family homes in Petaluma in March included 35 units, down 35.5 percent for 2018 year to date and down 48.5 percent year to year.

According to a 2012 Wharton study of about 100 single - family offices, about 16 percent said they had 10 - year returns, net of taxes and fees, of more than 10 percent annually.

Ticket sales for the infield at the Preakness Stakes — the state's biggest single - day event — are down 30 percent compared to this time last year, even as organizers are facing an Under Armour - sized gap in their lineup of corporate partners.

Alibaba said its sales for Singles» Day last year surpassed $ 2 billion in the first hour — including more than $ 1 million in Alipay transactions in the first 18 minutes — and 45.7 percent of first - hour sales were via mobile.

The popular real estate index, which tracks repeat sales of identical single - family houses as they turn over through the years, said San Diego home prices had risen 7.4 percent in a year.

Let's say you're single, earn an income of $ 35,000 that grows by 3.5 percent each year, and have loans with an average weighted interest rate of 5.70 %.

Research indicates that «nearly three - quarters of white women eighteen and nineteen had had sexual intercourse in 1988, up from 64 percent in 1982»; 76 percent of single women fifteen to forty - four years of age said they were sexually active.3

A 2013 Gallup poll shows that only 9 percent of single 18 - to 34 - year - olds don't want to get married; only 3 percent of 35 - to 54 - year - olds.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

Similarly, sick days, 80 percent of low - wage workers can't earn a single paid sick day, but we know that the cost of «presentism» is greater to businesses than of having sick days, so I expect that to pass in the next 10 years.

And we want marriages to last — some 86 percent of 18 - to 29 - year - olds, single and married, expect their marriage to last a lifetime, according to a recent study, despite a 50 percent divorce rate and despite a different study of newlywed women in which half said they expected infidelity would be part of their marriage and 72 percent said they'd probably experience divorce.

WIC, which provides extra nutrition to low - income pregnant women and infants who may not be able to afford the food they need, enrolls women and children who live at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level, or below $ 27,214 per year for a single mother and her child.

(Single - parent families accounted for 30 percent of all adoptions from foster care in 2012, the last year for which data are available, according to data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, or AFCARS.)

Some 28 percent of poor New Yorkers said they or their families had trouble affording the fare — currenlty $ 2.75 for a single trip and $ 121 for a monthly pass — at some point in the prior year, according to a Community Service Society survey published in 2016.

That's less than 3 percent of what the state spends in a single year on education, experts say.

«We made the single smartest investment that is going to pay dividends for generations, and will be finished by the end of this year, which is the first state in the country to have 100 percent broadband coverage,» he said.

Roughly 70 percent of NYC students who entered high school in the 2011 - 2012 academic year never took a single Advanced Placement exam, according to new Independent Budget Office data.

The Legislature also approved an estimated $ 1.5 billion in homeowner tax relief tied to local governments staying within a 2 percent tax cap the first year and enacting cost - saving plans the second year, benchmarks for Cuomo, who called his property tax relief «the single most transformative part» of the budget.

Deputy County Executive Edward Ward said the county this year reduced assessments for 87 percent of single - family homeowners who protested, primarily because «they were very much impacted» by Sandy.

Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.

One review found that the price of digoxin (a commonly prescribed heart medication) increased by 2,800 percent in a single year.

In two Nigerian communities, 118 children under the age of 5 died in a single year — 25 percent of the children in that age group.

Ninety - five percent of the sludge is applied to farm fields as soil conditioner and crop fertilizer, leading to the release from a single facility of nearly 1 metric ton of TCC into the environment each year, the researchers calculate.

For example, a study of sexual behavior in Zimbabwe, where roughly 33 percent of adults are HIV - positive, found that in a single year, most people have between one and three sexual partners.

Kalkowski found that while 37 percent of the single mothers in the Financial Success program had used a payday loan services three or more times in the year prior to starting the program, that dropped to 4 percent a year after graduating from the program.

Of the 80 patients treated, 81 percent were pain free one year after a single 10 - minute treatment session.

Columbia University geochemists Peter Kelemen and Juerg Matter calculated that a single rock formation in Oman could store up to 10 percent of all human - generated carbon emitted in a year.

This group of adults had a 46 percent lower chance of being diagnosed with hypertension compared to adults who for those years were raised by a single parent.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could sell a single book copy, much less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»

In the year 2014, there was approximately only 25 percent of singles in the United States who had a friend introduce them to their date.