Sentences with phrase «recent national growth»

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According to a recent study by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO), only 28 % of female owners of fast - growth companies financed their businesses using equity capital.

A recent survey by the National Small Business Association found that most don't have a new ad or marketing campaign in the works, and one in five has absolutely no growth strategy in place for the coming year.

Lancaster also beat the national average for recent job growth.

Recent job growth in San Jose is more than double the national rate, according to Sperling's.

Business sentiment, according to the National Association of Purchasing Managers» survey, has also deteriorated and recent monthly data suggest that underlying employment growth has moderated a little.

The recent strength in national employment growth has been underpinned by increases in employment growth in NSW and Victoria, partly driven by the rapid growth in residential housing investment in those states.

Unemployment is at its lowest rate since the mid 1970s and the housing market has shown renewed strength in recent months, with year - ended growth in national house prices back above 15 per cent.

The most recent forecast for this area came from Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, who cited the area's strong job growth.

Combined with the recent growth in full - day kindergarten outside Quebec, enhancements to parental leave could dramatically alter the political calculus of national daycare.

One recent estimate from the National Survey of Family Growth found that kids in the mid-2000s born to cohabiting parents were more than twice as likely to see mom and dad break up by the age of 12 compared to kids born to married parents.

In outlining numerous successes The Bronx has seen in recent years, Borough President Diaz noted considerable job growth and new attention from national and international media, as well as billions of dollars in new investment that has been leveraged to create jobs, improve infrastructure and build thousands of units of affordable housing.

Some large agencies like NIH and the National Science Foundation have actually seen average annual budget growth above four percent in recent decades, even with periods of decline.

The researchers selected data from 19,922 women, ages 21 to 44, from the two most recent surveys in the National Survey of Family Growth study.

In a recent issue of Nano Letters, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) demonstrated a new growth technique that uses specially engineered catalysts.

According to a recent survey by the National Charter School Research Project, scarcity of facilities was listed first among all reported external barriers to growth of charter management organizations, mentioned in 89 percent of responses.

In a new article for Education Next, Robin Lake, Trey Cobb, Roohi Sharma, and Alice Opalka of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) study the factors holding back charter growth in the Bay Area of San Francisco, where the recent slowdown in charter expansion mirrors the national trend.

Other research we have conducted at the Center on Reinventing Public Education in «high choice» cities suggests this same general dynamic might explain the recent national slowdown in charter growth.

If one compares the growth in student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) during the years the Bush Administration was in office with the growth during the first two years of the Obama Administration, as I have done in a recent op - ed piece, it becomes pretty clear that the annual growth rate was substantially higher when George W. Bush was in office.

A recent report by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) on the largest for - profit operator of these schools, K12 Inc., has urged states to «slow or put a moratorium on the growth of full - time virtual schools.»

An instructional guide on the Ku Klux Klan developed for high - school teachers by the National Education Association (nea) has divided civil - rights groups over the proper way to depict the history and recent growth of the Klan.

In recent speeches, President Bush has placed foreign - language acquisition at the forefront of his goals for economic growth and national security in the coming years.

Part of the growth of charter schools in recent years can be attributed to charter school proponents in state and national government.

In recent years, there has been explosive growth in students creating, manipulating, and sharing content online (National School Boards Association, 2007).

In the National Alliance for Public Charter School's recent report, they highlighted that charter school enrollment growth across the country was concentrated in America's big cities.

A new report released today by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) analyzes an unexpected finding from a recent charter school growth report: the rate of charter school growth is... Read More

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

These funds will lay a new foundation for economic growth and competitiveness by investing in our national infrastructure network, building on recent safety achievements, and modernizing our transportation systems through research and innovation.

The finalized leadership team highlights a period of steady growth for Laurel Road, on the heels of a national rebrand that reflects the company's growing customer base and recent technology advancements.

Based on the recent opening of the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Cruise Port at Harvest Caye in Southern Belize and continued national cruise tourism growth, the total number of ship calls increased by a sizeable 13 % to 336 calls in 2017.

Recent years have been a period of accelerated growth for Suys, whose work was chosen to hang in 7 OPA National Exhibitions since 2010 and who, in 2013, won Best In Show at the Salon International.

But with the recent enormous growth in art prices, the capping of tax relief available through AiL at # 40 million a year (a sum that incorporates tax relief granted through the recently created Cultural Gifts Scheme for lifetime giving) greatly limits its usefulness in developing all national collections and stemming the flow of major artworks out of this country.

As Australia's Ambassador for the Environment, Peter Woolcott, pointed out at a recent public forum at ANU Crawford School, views will diverge about «what Australia can realistically achieve given its unique national circumstances and characteristics, including its resource endowment, and economic and population growth».

A recent poll conducted by the American Tort Reform Association and the grassroots Sick of Lawsuits released a national survey finding that a strong majority of people believe lawsuit abuse hurts economic growth, job creation, and U.S. competitiveness.

The initiative was bolstered by a recent report from the Kaufman Foundation stating that fast - growth companies making up less than 1 % of US companies are responsible for up to 10 % of national hires in a given year.

A recent study in the US, by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), also relayed the importance of skilled migration by stating it is likely to increase productivity and economic growth.

Growth is slowing in the seniors housing sector with the first half of 2013 showing flat to declining occupancy, the first negative trend since the first quarter of 2010, according to a recent report by the National Investment Center for the S...

In addition to redevelopment and community development, General Growth's recent expansion has allowed it to more effectively sell access to its common areas to national brands.

The FNB House Price Index revealed a 7.4 % year - on - year national growth for the month of June, which was slightly higher than the 7.2 % rate recorded for May, «extending the recent mild accelerating trend in average house price inflation to 5 months».

The most recent FNB Property Barometer reported that against expectation, the national house price growth rate improved on a month - to - month basis throughout last year from a low of 1.5 % year - on - year in December 2016 to 6.1 % for December 2017.

«Affordability has fallen to a five - year low, as home price increases easily outpaced income growth,» Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of REALTORS ®, noted in a recent housing report.

Inventory growth and absorption rates appear to be moving toward favorable, but flat, occupancy levels, and could settle into the 88.3 percent range through 2017, according to recent projections from the National Investment Center (NIC) for Seniors Housing and Care.

The recent Smart Homes & REALTORS ® survey conducted by the National Association of REALTORS ® found that consumers» awareness about smart - home technology is still in the growth phase — only 15 percent of respondents reported their clients had asked about it.

Jacksonville has enjoyed steady job growth in recent years, and along with a moderate amount of new apartments deliveries, factors that have conspired to keep rent growth higher than the national average, according to Axiometrics.

The 2007 Profile of Buyers» Home Feature Preferences, released by the National Association of Realtors, says that since the last survey in 2004, oversize garages saw the biggest growth in terms of what recent buyers considered very important in a home, gaining 16 percentage points to 57 per cent.

Despite positive improvements in the labor market in recent years, new home construction is currently insufficient in a majority of metro areas and is contributing to persistent housing shortages and unhealthy price growth in many markets, according to new research from the National Association of REALTORS ®.

A growing economy, rising household formations, low mortgage rates and pent - up demand will help single - family housing production to rev up in 2015 while a growth in renters will keep the multifamily market at cruising altitude or higher, according to economists who participated in a recent National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 2014 Fall Construction Forecast Webinar.

The National Association of the Remodeling Industry, a trade association that represents 7,000 construction firms, said its most recent quarterly survey of builders showed growing business from homeowners based on improving home prices, economic growth and more certainty about the future.

«National median home prices began their most recent rise during the first quarter of 2012 but had climbed to unsustainable levels given the current pace of inflation and wage growth,» he explains.