Sentences with phrase «state average rose»

«While the state average rose from 88.5 in 2013 (on a 150 - point scale) to 89.2 in 2014, the RSD New Orleans average dropped from 71.9 to 71.2 during this same time period.

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When lumped in with still - rising federal levies like the Universal Services Fund, they add 12 percent to the average American's cell bill and as much as 19 percent in many of our most populous states, says Scott Mackey, economist and partner with government affairs firm Kimbell Sherman Ellis.

In states that never legalized medical marijuana, the average prevalence of illicit use was 4.54 percent in 1991 and 1992, rising to 6.70 percent in 2012 and 2013.

The 22 percent rise reflects the average for all insurance marketplaces, both federal and state - based exchanges for which data are available.

It claims: «In the United States, per - person gross domestic product rose by an average of 2.2 percent a year from 1947 through 2000 — but starting in 2001 has averaged only 0.9 percent.

From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attîtudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.

Producing an average of 21.25 million eggs daily, Rose Acre Farms is the second largest egg producer in the United States.

ISU's rise (along with that of new No. 4 Oklahoma State) wasn't enough to allow the Big 12 to keep its spot atop the conference averages.

While the average age of first - time mothers and childbearing women in the United States has risen steadily over the past few decades, many women still become mothers in their early twenties.

School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of districts.

Under the triple lock system a guarantee is made that state pensions will rise in line either with inflation, average earnings, or 2.5 %, depending on which is of the three is of the highest value.

Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.

Conservatives are also prominent defenders of the basic state pension and David Willetts was ahead of Labour in saying that it needed to be reconnected to the rise in average earnings.

New York State insurers selling plans on the individual market are asking the Cuomo administration to raise average premiums by more than 17 percent, a consequence of rising medical costs, decreasing federal funding and misplaced assumptions about the health of consumers.

Cuomo joined California in signing on to the Under 2 MOU, an agreement between states, provinces and local governments across the world to cap the rising average temperature by the year 2100.

The average bonus on Wall Street rose 2 percent to $ 172,860 last year, and that's the highest since the financial crisis hit in 2007, according to a report released by the state comptroller's office.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

The latest school - tax figures, which would rise an average 2.01 percent statewide, illustrate the impact of the state's tax - cap law, adopted in 2011 with a big push from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

But while tax revenues have been successfully limited under the cap, Michael Borges with the New York State Association of School Business Officials said districts» costs, including health care and transportation, have continued to rise much faster than the average rate of inflation.

He said the average homeowner's bill would rise by $ 41, but those making less than $ 500,000 would receive a state rebate to cover the entire increase.

Brown said poverty was set to rise even among pensioners, a group that is protected by the triple lock, a guarantee that the state pension will rise by inflation, average earnings or 2.5 %.

Today's Daily Telegraph splashes with the news that public sector pay continues to grow under Labour: «The Office for National Statistics disclosed that, in the three months to October, state workers received an average annual rise of 2.8 % This was close to triple that seen in the private sector, where pay edged up by 1.1 %.

School tax levies — that is, revenue raised through local property taxation — will rise next year by an average 2.78 percent in Suffolk County and an average 2.42 percent both in Nassau County and statewide, according to figures from public school districts released last week by the state comptroller's office.

He says in the 30 years preceding the tax cap, school property taxes rose at an average of 6 percent a year, or twice the rate of inflation, and higher than the rate of the state income tax.

McMahon says the report draws on data from the state education department and comptroller's office about the average rates that school and other property taxes were rising in the years before the 2 percent per year tax cap took effect.

But, while tax revenues have been successfully limited under the cap, Michael Borges, with the New York State Association of School Business Officials, says schools» costs, including health care and transportation, have continued to rise much faster than the average rate of inflation.

The number of days each year above 95 ° Fahrenheit (35 ° Celsius) is expected to rise across the United States, and average summer temperatures will reach new heights if greenhouse gas emissions remain high.

Rising temperatures — an average increase in the United States of 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years — are exacerbating a whole range of modern ills, including pollution, urban crowding, and inadequate medical facilities.

Showcasing the United States they found that financial losses per hurricane could triple by the end of the century in unmitigated climate change, while annual losses could on average rise by a factor of eight.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

Alarmingly, unemployment after a postdoc rose sharply, from 4 % and 2 % in 2008 and 2010, to 10 % in 2012 — mirroring the current average unemployment rate in the European Union and slightly above that in the United States.

With the rapid rise in obesity in the United States, the average American woman's waist grew 1.3 inches in the six years between 1994 and 2000, the average man's 1.1 inches.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

According to the report, the average weight of men in the United States rose from 181 pounds to 196 pounds between 1988 - 1994 and 2011 - 2014.

In just the last two decades since the rise of the Internet, the amount the average person in the United States sleep has dropped by nearly 20 %.

Students» average scores this year rose in reading, written expression, spelling, and mathematics, according to state officials.

It has average temperatures of 82 degrees below zero, craters the size of an entire American state, and a volcano that rises 15 miles high.

In Florida, average math scores in fourth and eighth grade rose from 2015; in 10 other states, they declined.

Of the survey respondents, representing 44 states and the District of Columbia, 29 said reports of child abuse and neglect had risen, by an average of 9 percent.

In the decade after the education reforms began, the average NAEP reading score for Hispanic 4th graders in Florida rose steeply so that by 2007 scores were higher than the average NAEP reading scores of all students (regardless of ethnicity) in 15 states (see Figure 3).

In the 19 states that have already experienced midyear cuts in higher education, tuition rose an average of 14.4 percent, compared with 6.9 percent in states not undergoing rescissions, the association found in its eighth annual state - budget survey.

The average headteacher's salary — taking into account all state schools — has risen slightly to # 68,300, from # 67,300 the year before.

Over the course of five years, the average scores of its students on the state Academic Performance Index have risen more than 200 points, from 443 to 672 (in a range of 200 to 1,000).

The overall result: since the recession hit at the end of 2007, revenue growth nationally has averaged only about 1.5 percent above inflation annually — far from enough to make up for declining state support and rising student enrollment.

On tests administered by the federal Education Department, Massachusetts, which had been above average, rose to No. 1 among the 50 states in math.

reported that performances on state standardized math tests rose at the district's high schools as did average daily attendance.

This is because pupils at English state schools enter, on average, nine GCSEs and equivalent qualifications, rising to more than 10 for more able pupils.

But they were unusually low to begin with, and have only risen to the state average.

The school's AzMERIT scores have steadily increased within the last three years, rising above the state average, earning an «A» in this year's preliminary letter grade system.

Since Katrina, the average teacher salary in New Orleans has risen slower than the state average but in 2011 was 20 % higher than before the storm: $ 47,878 compared with the statewide average of $ 49,246, state data shows.