Sentences with phrase «rate than the nation»

In the U.S., the number of jobs started growing at a slower rate than the nation's productivity around 2000, a trend economists refer to as decoupling.

Interpretation: Although the scale on which parents are asked to grade schools are different in the two surveys, results are broadly similar in that local schools get a substantially higher rating than the nation's schools and private schools get a substantially higher rating than public schools.

On the positive side: For the second year in a row, Philadelphia added jobs at a faster rate than the nation as a whole... a...

Although Massachussets has a lower car theft rate than the nation, there's always a risk that your car will be stolen.

Not exact matches

In 2012, the city filed for bankruptcy and had the nation's highest foreclosure rate at more than four times the US average, according to RealtyTrac.

As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

These nations believed that rates «less than zero» would spur their sluggish economies.

It ended up being OK — a trade treaty meant that FXR pays Canadian tax rates, which are much lower than those of Scandinavian nations, on its profits from the region — but checking ahead of time saved him from a potentially unpleasant surprise later.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

But while that growth is comparable to the rates of most other cities in developed nations (and better than some), it's far below the rates at which cities are growing in China, Brazil and India.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than that in most similarly wealthy nations — and it's actually been on the rise over the past two decades.

With operations around the world — three wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe, majority ownership in a joint venture in Japan, and distribution agreements with independent contractors in other nations — Wind River faces corporate tax rates that can be much higher than those for companies that operate only in the United States.

India's birth rate is now only slightly higher than the U.S. rate, with most advanced nations close to or below the natural replacement level of two children per household.

The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

However, the rate of overall consumer distress (having any seriously delinquent debt or third party collections debt) is lower in the tristate region than the nation.

(Gun deaths are a big reason that America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.)

Orange County is a state leader in job creation with over 23,000 jobs added year - over-year, and an unemployment rate of 2.8 % (December 2017) that is consistently lower than the state and nation.

Given the nation's debt load — as of February, households had a record $ 2.1 trillion of mortgage and non-mortgage debt — Poloz estimates the economy is 50 per cent more sensitive to rate hikes than in the past.

According to the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey, emerging markets (EM) millennials are more likely to say that «starting their own business» is a sign of success than Millennials in developed nations.1 Further, according to the 2016 Global Entrepreneur Report, the overall age pattern for entrepreneurship worldwide shows the highest participation rates among the 25 — 34 and 35 — 44 year olds.2

This report also comes out less than six hours after the Commerce Department had reported that the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) had been revised upward for the second quarter from an initial estimate of 1.5 % growth to a mildly more reassuring rate of 1.7 %.

Expected rate increases will vary wildly across the nation, analysts warned, but said states that promote their markets or take steps to regulate prices down would fare better than others.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

In 2010 the nation's poverty rate rose to a 17 - year high, with more than 46 million people — 15.1 % of the population - living in poverty and 49.9 million living without health insurance.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

You jail people at a rate greater than any other western nation but it doesn't help.

Third World nations should be allowed to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

Three guiding ethical principals are suggested, including allowing Third World nations to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

But if this so, then we are in even deeper trouble than Faludi suggests, since the divorce rate in America is the highest of any industrialized nation and results mainly in single - parent famines headed by women.

The data doesn't break out along religious lines, but it's safe to infer that there isn't a categorically higher rate of interaction between American Christians and their Muslims neighbors than there is among the nation as a whole.

When the majority are atheists, then you can decide, but when that day comes the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled and we will have war and rumors of war and famine and pestilence and we will become a backward, 3rd rate nation which will be over run by another people who are more deserving than us!

Bill Connelly's S&P + ratings: SB Nation's favored advanced stat, which arrives a bit later than the others.

He raves about Malik's abilities, deeming him the best prep guard in the nation, even better than one of his own former Team Penny players — Dennis Smith, Jr., of Fayetteville, North Carolina, the top - rated point guard in the class of 2016.

Is the Under - 21 tournament under - rated by England more than other nations?

Her advocacy and best - selling books, Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism and Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds brought to light the high rate of divorce within the autism community — as high as 80 percent.

Oklahoma (and 11 other states) has food insecurity rates statistically significantly higher than the national three - year average of 13.7 percent, and is among the top 10 most food - insecure states in the nation

«our mortality rate is much worse than any other industrial nation» Even this is a propaganda infused statement.

The USA has higher rates of HIV, obesity, poor access to antenatal care, gestational diabetes, drug addiction and pre-eclampsia than many developed nations.

Though these teen pregnancy statistics show improvements in teen pregnancy prevention in recent years, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is still substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable nNations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable nnations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

The governor says while New York spends more per student than any state in the nation, high school graduation rates ranks at number 38 in the country.

Fewer than 64 percent of eligible residents are registered to vote in New York state — the fourth - lowest rate in the nation.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A recent national study that reported Syracuse has the nation's highest lead poisoning rate is flawed and makes the lead problem here appear far worse than it is, according to Onondaga County Health Department officials.

A new sense of urgency seems to have sent in over the last several years as the state is set to lose two more House seats after it failed to grow at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.

The head of the state's Business Council, Heather Briccetti, says the state already spends more than most other states on education, but does not rank among the top rated schools in the nation.

A recent national study that reported Syracuse has the nation's highest lead poisoning rate is flawed and makes the lead problem here appear far worse than it is, according to Onondaga County Health Department officials.

While New York's unemployment rate is lower than the nation's 9.5 percent, Gillibrand noted the actual figures are likely higher because the federal statistics do not take into account individuals who have given up looking for work or those who are underemployed.

Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in the United States in more than two decades — an uptick last seen at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic in 1993 — and factored into a year - over-year decline in the nation's life expectancy rate in 2015, according to an expert addressing a congressional briefing and a related presentation on the opioid epidemic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's headquarters on May 10.