Sentences with phrase «percent on all other spending»

Both cards give 3 percent back for dining and 2 percent for groceries, balancing out the lower 1 percent on all other spending.

Not exact matches

Blanchett calculated that median spending on health care rose from 5 percent of total spending at age 60 to 15 percent at age 80, even as most other categories declined.

About 26 percent would reduce spending on other things, and 28 percent said they would either borrow from family or friends or use credit cards.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

Even though all the other managers dressed «professionally,» I had shifted my personal dress code to jeans and polo shirts: I spent 90 percent of my time on the floor, liked to get involved, liked to get dirty... OK, who am I kidding.

Other research suggests that 20 percent of small business owners spend 10 to 24 hours a month on accounting, and 50 percent spend nearly ten hours.

That was about 5 percent less than those companies spent on new plants, research and development and other investments.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Other» professional services by 212 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 18 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 332 million per year.

De Nysschen, citing JD Power data, added that other brands have at times resorted to incentive spending on sedans that reach 30 to 50 percent of average transaction prices.

Yes, we retain 5 percent to manage all of the expenses CDP will incur as a nonprofit organization, including forming an advisory committee of subject matter experts, researching other donors and nonprofits, conducting due diligence on prospective grant recipients, awarding grants and following up to make sure contributions are well spent.

To fund the other (100 minus X) percent of your initial retirement spending, you will need a nest egg of $ Y based on the assumption that this income also needs to keep pace with inflation even though you won't need anywhere near that much over time.»

On an average day, 83 percent of women and 65 percent of men spent some time doing household activities such as housework, cooking, lawn care, or financial and other household management.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

The Island's largest business group is seeking other policies such as a 2 percent limit on state spending growth, and rapid bus service to the Hub in Uniondale.

The Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, which supplies about 20 percent of the water that flows into the lake, has spent millions on upgrades to reduce ammonia, phosphorous and other compounds.

That means that 70 percent of all dollars spent in New York schools is spent on teachers, their aides and other staff who directly interact with students in a classroom.

Other agencies heavily reliant on overtime include Veterans» Homes, which spent 10.5 percent of agency pay on overtime, State Police, which spent 6 percent on overtime, and the Department of Transportation, which spent 5.7 percent of agency pay on overtime.

The bill, which would mandate TSA's criminal investigators to spend a minimum of 50 percent of their work time on criminal cases to receive premium pay and other benefits, was approved in February by the House.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave his vital support to Cuomo's effort to cut spending, establish a 2 percent cap on the growth of property taxes, enact nonpartisan redistricting of election districts for the next 10 years so majority parties don't protect their power, and other key proposals.

«I don't want to see us spend all these finite resources fighting each other when we agree on conservatively 90 percent of stuff, probably close to 99 percent of stuff,» he said in response.

While some countries such as Sweden and Finland already spend more proportionally than the EU average on R&D, others such as Bulgaria and Romania spend as little as 0.5 percent.

Including the comparatively small amount spent by the private sector, the total amount spent on research amounts to roughly 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product — a number three times smaller than the amount spent by Japan and far behind other nations as well.

Consider: We spend 50 percent more per capita on health care than any other country, for a total of $ 2 trillion a year, yet our health system, according to the World Health Organization, ranks 37th worldwide (France is number one).

While the average rate of growth has decreased steadily since the 1970s, Moses says the 18 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) that the United States spends on health care is 50 to 60 percent higher than any other developed country.

Around 36 percent of the average sugar baby's allowance is spent on tuition, while 23 percent goes to rent, 20 percent to textbooks, nine percent to transportation, five percent to clothing and seven percent to other things.

On the other hand, the number two advertiser eHarmony.com, cut spending 16 percent, reaching $ 88.1 mln, and gave up its number one position.

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

Forty - four percent of respondents believe that having students spend more time using computers or other digital devices would have a generally positive effect on student learning, while 35 % believe the effect would be negative.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The half of the sample who saw the prompt claimed, on average, that their districts spent $ 5,262, about $ 1,000 more than the others, but still only 54 percent of the actual per - pupil spending levels in their districts.

It's a scenario that could take place in any district: A facilities planner wants to pay to have a new school «commissioned,» but the district's accountant believes the additional cost — about 1 percent of the total expense of the project — could be better spent on other needs.

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

With an ESA, parents receive 90 percent of what would have been spent on their child in the public school into a restricted - use savings account, and can then use those funds to pay for private school tuition, online learning, special education services and therapies, textbooks, tuition, and other education - related services, products, and providers.

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

Conventional wisdom says that Obama put one over on the GOP — getting them to accept higher taxes on the top 2 percent without so much as giving up a dollar for education or any other government spending program.

In survey responses, some teachers and principals reported that they spent less time on other subjects as a result of the promotion policy — some 40 percent said that they were spending less time on social studies and science — although 57 percent said they did not spend less time on those subjects because of the new policy.

At Jackson Avenue, which houses the third and fourth grades, all 417 children, including those in special education, have their own tablets, and they spend about 75 percent of their instructional day on the devices, more than many other schools that have embraced digital learning.

We do spend 56 percent of our state budget on education — but that's K - 12 education and higher education combined, an inconsistency if every other number referenced in this video pertains just to K - 12 public education.

Switzerland spends 70 percent of its compensation dollars on teachers and just 14 percent on other staff.

Current levels of spending on education, training, employment services and other programs would be reduced by an average of 20 percent between 2013 and 2022 under Ryan's blueprint, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).

A study by Daniel Deshler and Belinda Mitchell from the University of Kansas, «Examining the Role of the Special Educator in a Response to Intervention Model,» found that special education teachers spend 33 percent of their day on IEP paperwork and other administrative responsibilities.

• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... • Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...

In other words, districts spent 99.972 percent of their classroom teacher money on teachers last year.

For example, depending on how much you spend, you might accumulate $ 150 in cash back over the course of the year if you get a rewards card that gives you 2 percent cash back on dining and 1 percent cash back on all other purchases.

If you're not clear on how you can protect all the other things you spend money on, don't feel bad — fifty - six percent of Americans don't have renters insurance!

You'll also get 3.0 percent back on the first $ 6,000 you spend at supermarkets per year, an unlimited 2.0 percent back at gas stations and select department stores and 1.0 percent back for all other purchases.

Also, if you can live on a percent less, it would take about 45 years to double your spending rate and at two percent about 30 years, so it is difficult to increase these much other than by working.

Starting with rates as low as 5.25 percent, Earnest bases its credit decisions on so much more than credit score, taking into account other factors such as current income and future earning potential, as well as your education and saving / spending habits.

You'll get 3 percent back on the first $ 6,000 you spend at grocery stores per year, an unlimited 2 percent back at gas stations and select department stores and 1 percent back for all other purchases.

For example, in the not - so - distant past, a lender would be reluctant to give a mortgage to people who would be spending more than 36 percent of their gross income on mortgage, credit cards and all other debt repayment.