Sentences with phrase «percent of the population controls»

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking rates have fallen from 21 percent of the adult population in 2005 to 15 percent in 2015, when the agency conducted its latest survey.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

think of it as population control since when does one percent of population dictate bigotry?

UNFPA's latest update to its report on member - state contributions shows that eight wealthy European countries, along with Canada and Japan, pay 86 percent of the $ 389 million bill to fund that agency, which aggressively promotes population control.

<< hrough such factors as innovation, consistency and quality control, DiMare Fresh Inc. has successfully grown to have the capability of serving 90 percent of the U.S. population.

It's no secret that 2 percent of the human population controls all the wealth and the resources, and the other 98 percent struggle their whole life to try and attain it.

According to Centers for Disease Control data, 10.6 percent of New York state's population did not have health insurance in 2012, the year before the state health exchange was established.

If the power over lines is taken out of their hands, and the districts are required to have roughly equal numbers of residents in them — at the moment the populations of each district are permitted to depart from the mean by up to five percent in either direction — the swing back toward Democratic control will be that much more dramatic.

Italian engineer and social scientist Vilfredo Pareto observed a century ago that 80 percent of wealth is controlled by 20 percent of the population.

An estimated 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and an estimated 5.3 million individuals — approximately two percent of the U.S. population — are living with disability as a result of TBI.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one - quarter of the U.S. population report occasionally not getting enough sleep while nearly 10 percent experience chronic insomnia.

They found that when microglia were also lost, Müller glia showed almost no regenerative activity after three days of recovery, compared with approximately 75 percent regeneration in the control population.

«Given that some strains demonstrated 100 percent non-Mendelian transmission ratios, far greater than the 50 percent expected for normal Mendelian transmission, this system could in the future be used to control populations of D. suzukii.»

«We were able to estimate that up to 45 percent of globally threatened vertebrate populations on islands may be extirpated in the absence of conservation interventions, but that targeted invasive mammal control and eradication could prevent 41 to 75 percent of these predicted future extirpations,» said McCreless.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes and an estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have some form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high levels of blood sugar, although not all have symptoms.

In the last few years, new antiviral drugs have made it possible to cure more than 90 percent of the HCV population, says Harrys A. Torres, M.D., associate professor, Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health.

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

Together, they affect an estimated three million adults in the United States, or 1.3 % percent of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Over time, imbalances in blood sugar can lead to serious diseases like type 2 diabetes, which has sadly become an «epidemic» in the U.S with over 12 percent of the adult population now considered diabetic according the US Centers for Disease Control.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of asthma in the U.S. population in 2013 was 8.3 percent in children and 7 percent in adults.

According to the Center for Disease Control's 2014 analysis on fluoridation, 74.4 percent of the US population getting their water through community water systems was receiving fluoridated water.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health Interview Survey, in 2002 only 5 percent of the US population actively practiced yoga.

Today over 24 million Americans, or 8 percent of the population, are diabetic, and nearly 60 million are pre-diabetic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Anywhere from 0.5 to 1 percent of the general population is estimated to have the condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that seventy - five percent of the American population has triclosan in their bodies.

Nielsen marketing insights predicted that by 2017, 50 percent of the US population will be over the age of 50 and this group will control 70 % of the disposable income in the US.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

Single mothers, violent crime, and high school education attainment as a percent of the population do not have significant relationships with boundary participation controlling for other factors.

Among them were new superintendent Walter G. Amprey, who promoted school - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hispanic.

For four years I taught in an all - boys public school in Queens that serves an almost 100 percent African - American student body — a population of students that has been historically and systematically under - represented in the upper echelon of standardized test scores for many factors beyond anyone's control.

It's estimated that Amazon controls 90 percent or more of ebook sales in the UK, and its Prime service reaches more than 30 percent of the population.

In fact, individuals over the age of 55 account for 25 percent of the U.S. population but control about 66 percent of single - family home equity, according to a recent survey conducted by Freddie Mac.

During the last eight - year period that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied fatal attacks by breed (1991 to 1998), pit bulls were estimated at 1 percent of the U.S. dog population.

Down south, where pet population control is less widely practiced, shelters more typically struggle to ensure a «live release rate» of between 40 to 60 percent.

During the last eight - year period (1991 - 98) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied fatal attacks by breed, pit bulls were estimated at 1 percent of the U.S. dog population.

In developing nations, studies suggest that vaccinating a minimum of 70 percent of dogs in a given region is effective in controlling the disease within that population.

During El Nino years, when dry conditions make fires especially hard to control, as much as 11 percent of the population of Southeast Asia has been repeatedly exposed to levels of particulate matter well above what the World Health Organization considers safe.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

«Despite comporting with both federal guidelines and state law, these controls weren't good enough for the EPA... Whatever its rationale, [on August 5th] the EPA imposed Regional Haze retrofits at San Juan that would cost New Mexico ratepayers $ 370 million — a nearly tenfold increase over those approved by New Mexico officials... Based on peer - reviewed research, there is a 35 percent chance that the visibility «benefit» of the EPA's preferred controls could be perceptible by the general population on the seventh - worst visibility day of the year at Mesa Verde, the national park closest to the San Juan Generating Station... In other words, most people won't even notice the difference wrought by the EPA's ultra-expensive controls.»

How could it not be when the richest 1 percent of its population now controls forty percent of its national wealth.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1.4 million people aged 65 and older live in nursing homes right now in America, or about five percent of the population in that age group.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control show that young people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for around 30 percent of traffic - related injuries despite making up only 14 percent of the population.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for roughly 30 percent of all accident costs among males and 28 percent of accident costs among females despite representing only 14 percent of the US population.

South Korea has been considering a number of measures to control the cryptocurrency market in a country where between 3 and 4 percent of the entire population is thought to hold some amount of bitcoin.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 10 percent of the population in childbearing years experiences some degree of infertility.