Sentences with phrase «percent support higher»

Among respondents not told actual spending levels, only 53 percent support higher funding, down 10 percentage points from the 63 percent who were supportive a year ago.

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A drop in the euro provided support, helping the exporter - heavy DAX index outperfrom with a rise of 1.5 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB rose 1.2 percent to its highest level since October 2009, as government debt rose on dimming prospects of a snap election.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 hovered around the flatline during trading and closed 0.19 percent higher, mainly supported by retail stocks.

That is the highest number since 2008, and a vast improvement from 47 percent support in 2015.

As we reduce the small business tax rate to 9 percent from 11 percent, we will ensure that Canadian - Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC) status is not used to reduce personal income tax obligations for high - income earners rather than supporting small businesses.

In each of the two metros, 52 percent of the residents said they strongly support Amazon creating its second headquarters in the city, the highest among the 19 U.S. locations.

In the March 3 - 5 poll, 63 percent of Americans supported «nationwide ban on the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.»

According to Quinnipiac, support for a ban on high - capacity magazines grew from 56 percent to 63 percent from January 2013 to March 2018.

In Missouri, the most religiously active voters are supporting non-Trump alternatives with numbers as high as 70 percent.

While public support for abortion remains at a 20 - year high (57 %, according to Pew Research Center), 70 percent of white evangelicals and 40 percent of women overall believe it should be illegal.

With my background in marriage and family therapy, I know too well the history of research that supports this fear, with early statistics for divorce among bereaved parents as high as 90 percent.

So powerful was this surge that Bush's support among fundamentalists and evangelicals hit 84 percent — the highest ever for a Republican presidential nominee.

The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization.

Sixty percent of Catholics in Wisconsin support the state marriage amendment, much higher than in a state like Virginia (where Catholics voted «no» 48 percent to 52 percent).

According to the survey, a whopping «75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards,» while 15 % fewer of those surveyed support the «flexibility» (SNA's favorite buzzword for: «gutting of regulations») which the SNA is now doggedly pursuing on Capitol Hill via its high - powered lobbyists.

The high - percent agreement supports the reliability of those variables...

More than 40 percent of Americans support a ban on youth playing contact football up until entering high school, according to a survey of 1,003 adults by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute Powered by Trib Total Media.

Among only those with an opinion — support for a ban prior to entering high school was 45.5 percent compared to 54.5 percent opposed.

Support was highest in Queens, with 71 percent of those polled favoring the millionaire's tax over congestion pricing.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, support for the plan was highest with Manhattan voters at 58 percent.

On Long Island, where property taxes are among the highest in the nation, support for the cap was 77 percent that year.

On average, turnout levels were almost four percent higher in the constituencies that supported the referendum proposal (64.37 %) than it was in the constituencies that voted against this (60.48 %).

This summer, Cuomo has announced support for raising the state minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour, a number President Obama called for nationally, and allowing localities to set the wage 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

A recent Siena Research Institute poll estimates that a record high of 58 percent of New York's registered voters support gay marriage, compared with a record low 36 percent who oppose it.

But gay marriage advocates point to high poll numbers in support for the issue, with one showing 58 percent of voters believing same - sex marriage should be legalized.

Support for increasing the state's minimum wage remains very high (80 percent).

The conservative Tax Foundation, in its annual report, found that New York once again had the highest tax burden of any state in the nation, with 12.7 percent of income going to support state and local taxes.

According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the US, with 58 percent in support, tying the high point in Gallup's 46 years of polling on the subject.

Among voters upstate, where high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale could create jobs, 46 percent support fracking, compared to 45 percent who oppose it.

When voters were asked about having that type of policing in their own neighborhoods, overall support shot up even higher to 62 percent.

Siena reports that 26 percent of voters said they prefer the governor's program while 51 percent, the highest number recorded in polling so far, support legalizing medical marijuana and 21 percent want to keep it illegal.

Ironically, Gibson enjoys a 57 percent favorability rating, despite support from voters on progressive issues like a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, higher taxes for millionaires, and a minimum wage hike.

The poll showed Kelly with the support of nearly half of all Republican respondents, and 23 percent of Independents — the highest approval for either of the two groups of any of the candidates listed.

Single people paying taxes on $ 1 million, or couples on more than $ 2 million, now pay 8.82 percent under the plan Miller supported — higher than they would have before 2009, but lower than the change Stirpe supported.

His favorability rating in a recent Quinnipiac Poll is 59 percent, his highest ever in that survey, which he believes is a precursor to real support closer to Election Day.

The passed budget decreases the tax levy by 0.15 percent while still maintaining a high level of academics and support for students.

Trump is due in Syracuse tonight, and told Dicker he estimaed his support to be much higher, «maybe 90, 95 percent if I said I'd do it.»

Steve Greenberg, spokesman for Siena College Research Institute, said Cuomo's push for a higher minimum wage is backed by the majority of New Yorkers, but is most popular among liberals, and residents of New York City, as well as 75 percent of Democrats, who make up the core of support for the Democratic governor, who, until recently, was viewed as a moderate.

In New York, the Siena College poll this month found a new high for support — 58 percent.

«Domenic Recchia voted with Bill de Blasio 99 percent of the time, supporting higher taxes and more tolls,» the ad proclaims after a short voiceover from Mr. Grimm.

Domenic Recchia voted with Bill de Blasio 99 percent of the time, supporting higher taxes and more tolls.

A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday said the city's public advocate has support from 30 percent of likely Democratic voters, six percentage points higher than City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

New Yorkers give Bloomberg high approval ratings and support him for re-election, but the poll suggests that 56 percent of them disapprove of the City Council's move last year to extend term limits, allowing Bloomberg and the City Council members to run for third terms.

The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

Surprisingly, the poll showed that Pakistani support for bin Laden had declined [from a high of 52 percent in 2005] to 18 percent last year.

The remaining 77 percent did not and were protected by either heightened activity in the brain's reward system or a high level of family support, the researchers report.

Forty - one percent of female managers and professionals in Scandinavia reported high demand and low job control; 34.7 % reported high demand, low job control, and low social support; and 26.5 % reported high effort and low reward.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.