Sentences with phrase «than the nation as»

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

It may also explain why the sample population turned out to be slightly more urban and upscale than the nation as a whole.

If New York is truly «open for business,» it's not yet demonstrated by employment figures, which show New York creating jobs at a slower pace than the nation as a whole.

The percentage of students testing in the bottom quarter of the ITBS has dropped from 32 percent to 24.4 — better than the nation as a whole, according to CPS officials.

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.

In other states they are rising far more dramatically than the nation as a whole, from a few hundred dollars per pupil to over $ 2,000, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

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.

An analysis of the eight states with multiple years of implementation of the A F grading system found they were making faster improvements on NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math tests than the nation as a whole.

A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

Parents Overwhelmingly Support School Choice October 27, 2016 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation 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.

Urban school districts may have shown slightly more improvement than the nation as a whole, where results were largely stagnant.

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 good news is the state's job growth was up 1.9 percent over the past year, better 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...

«The Southeast has grown about 2.5 percent faster than the nation as a whole throughout the 1990s,» explains Mary Kassis, research coordinator with the Economic Forecasting Center (EFC) at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Property markets that have strong energy or technology sectors have fared vastly better than the nation as a whole.

While Chicago prices continue to follow a national trend of continued increases, the pace is slower in this area than the nation as a whole.

«While Portland's economy was hit harder by the recession than the nation as a whole, it has nonetheless had a somewhat stronger recovery.

Not exact matches

... As a nation, we have been trained to look past the bad behavior of our rudest guests, especially the uninvited ones, and rather than cause a scene, we shall just go about our daily business as if nothing has happeneAs a nation, we have been trained to look past the bad behavior of our rudest guests, especially the uninvited ones, and rather than cause a scene, we shall just go about our daily business as if nothing has happeneas if nothing has happened.

But we have got to get together as a nation, do better than we are doing to educate these kids because it's getting worse and worse and worse.

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.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

As governor of the nation, Trump would need to surround himself with politically experienced people and be willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans who hold different opinions and values than he does in order to get things done.

Though they admit comparisons are tricky, economists generally view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in many other wealthy nations.

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.

Gore, who formerly served as the entrepreneur - in - residence for the United Nations Foundation, boiled it down even further: «More than skillsets, I worry about time.

As Fortune reported last week, the nation now has more breweries than ever before: 4,144 in 2015, exceeding a historic high set in 1873.

Today, as the nation's leading private coaching company, CoachUp has more than 14,000 coaches and 200,000 athletes across 25 sports.

Most Americans recognize that protectionism is a losing hand, as evidenced by a recent Gallup poll showing that 58 % of the nation sees foreign trade as an opportunity rather than a threat.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

«With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years as a public servant, as an adviser, as a scholar, Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders,» Obama said.

Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more than 100 of the most popular music venues in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.

As the nation's economy emerges from recession, many companies are adopting a more cautious bird - in - the - hand strategy - working to retain the customers they have rather than continually pursuing prospects.

On Thursday, Deadline cited a Hollywood consultant who suggested that the studio needs to screen The Birth of a Nation for as many viewers as possible so that the public can judge the film based on its content more than its creator.

Meanwhile, as miners proliferate and entire server farms are setting up to run the currency, the power suck is causing energy blackouts and total power consumption is exceeding that of more than 100 nations.

Nestler says that as the march has grown — more than 200,000 people are expected to travel to the nation's capital for it — he and his team have been in contact with many of the organizers of the 53 state chapters to give them the tools and information they need to help transport as many participants as possible.

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than reaAs to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than reaas dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

Initially conceived 85 years ago as The Commerce of the Nation, a newsletter for the recently formed Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the magazine's early days consisted of little more than relaying news of chamber doings.

To explain why this big gap in valuations isn't a sign of over-valuation, the CAPE's critics cite lots of individual issues in these nations that make them riskier bets than the U.S., such as looming Brexit in the U.K. and Germany's uncertainty regarding future leadership.

As the nation's single largest employer, with more than 1.5 million workers, acquiring an insurer could ostensibly help Walmart bring down health costs for its own workforce.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

As Modern Healthcare notes, the U.S. imports more medical, surgical, dental, and veterinarian instruments from Mexico than it does from any other country, with more than $ 5.4 billion worth of these supplies coming in from the nation between January and November of 2016 alone.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

Rather than repeat this approach, both the federal government and state governments should write contracts to ensure that economic incentives focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the nation's inmates, not just warehousing as many people as possible.

Nation - state hackers are widely viewed as possessing more advanced capabilities than criminal groups, a perception that could benefit Yahoo as it works to minimize fallout from the breach and complete its sale to Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N)