Sentences with phrase «rate than the nation as a whole»

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...

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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.

And in the Pacific Northwest, rates for many vaccinations tend to be lower than those for the nation as a whole.

By 2003 the dropout rate had fallen to 13 percent, the percentage of students meeting national norms was up to 41, and the percentage of students testing in the bottom quartile was down to about 24 - better than the nation as a whole.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

It is often noted, for example, that Americans tend to rate their local schools more favorably than those of the nation — much as they regard their own members of Congress quite highly while disdaining Congress as a whole.

Education did significantly better than the nation as a whole with just a three percent decrease in total school personnel compared to a nine percent increase in the national unemployment rate.

And the gap in graduation rates between whites and blacks and Hispanics is narrower in Texas than in the nation as a whole and is gradually closing.

Today, thanks to this system of tracking freshmen attendance and grades, Chicago's high school graduation rate is up more than 20 percentage points and is approaching the national average, despite having a student population that is much poorer than the nation as a whole.

The rate of car theft is higher in South Carolina than in the nation as a whole, and this rate is consistent with auto theft in Greenville.

The rate of car theft is lower in Mississippi than in the nation as a whole, but in Jackson, car theft is very high.

Despite the region's (particularly Florida's) reputation of being a retirement mecca, the penetration rate of seniors housing among households older than 75 is less in the region as a whole than for the nation (9.8 % versus 10.6 % as of third - quarter 2016).