Sentences with phrase «than the national rate of»

However, Wisconsin's 4.2 % unemployment rate was much lower than the national rate of 5.0 %.

The state's unemployment rate of 5.6 % was a bit higher than the national rate of 5.0 %.

One quarter of all school - age children attended private school, according to Louisiana state data, far more than the national rate of roughly 10 percent.

Maryland excluded 66 percent of fourth - graders with disabilities for the reading test, far higher than the national rate of 16 percent.

In 2015, residents of this town reported 223 burglaries, which equates to about 5.01 burglaries for every 1,000 households, which is still lower than the national rate of 5.43 for that year.

Alaska's boating accident fatality rate is 29.9 deaths per 100,000 registered boats, which is significantly higher than the national rate of 6.2

Homeowners pay an average of $ 20 less than the national rate of $ 696, and renters pay an average of around $ 12 a month for their insurance.

Hawaii's boating accident fatality rate is 44.9 deaths per 100,000 registered boats, which is significantly higher than the national rate of 6.2.

31 percent of AL residents rent their homes, which is a much lower rate than the national rate of 36 percent.

In Florida, seven of the fifteen markets — Daytona Beach, Lakeland, Melbourne, Miami, Port St. Lucie, Punta Gorda, and Sebring — have penetration rates less than the national rate of 10.6 % and significantly less than the penetration rates of either Naples (14.0 %) or Sarasota (13.6 %).

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These are the best ratings in more than 10 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

American Express» 2017 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report estimates that from 1997 to 2017, the number of women - owned firms increased by a rate of roughly more than 2.5 times the national average (114 percent vs. 44 percent).

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

More than a third of Detroit residents are officially classified as poor, and it has an unemployment rate of 18.2 percent — far above the national rate of 7.7 percent, according to government data.

While men sustained more than 70 % of the job losses during the recession, new numbers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S. suggest that through 2010, male employment rates increased and eventually surpassed those of women.

Given persistently high rates of youth unemployment — at 13.6 percent, more than double the national average — selecting an entrepreneurial path represents not only an acceptable choice for youth, but a strategic decision.

An undergrad who borrows $ 37,000 — and that's less than the national average for 2016 graduates — and has an interest rate of 4.45 percent will pay $ 8,908 in interest over 10 years, according to NerdWallet's student loan calculator.

However, nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 1.1 % in Minnesota between November 2014 and November 2015, lower than the national growth rate of 1.9 % over that year.

However, the state's job - growth rate was somewhat below average, with a 1.3 % increase in nonfarm payroll jobs between November 2014 and November 2014, a bit lower than the national increase of 1.9 %.

To a student fresh out of college, San Francisco's median rent rate of $ 3,200 per month (three times higher than the national average!)

Stéfane Marion, chief economist at National Bank Financial, noted earlier this month Canadian factories currently are using 82 % of their production capacity, a historically strong number that is seven percentage points higher than the corresponding capacity - utilization rate in the United States.

Both states continue to have significantly higher uninsured rates than the national average of less than 10 percent.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Broward County's rate of census forms returned, including our hard - to - count populations, was higher than the national average resulting in an increased flow of federal funds.

People with excellent credit may receive an interest rate between 10.3 % and 12.5 % on a personal loan, which is lower than the national average credit card rate of 16.41 %.

Its average effective property tax rate of 0.59 % is lower than all but six other states, and about half the national average.

According to TSF, U.S. solar jobs grew by almost 20 percent in 2013 — far exceeding expectations — or roughly ten times faster than the national employment rate of just 1.9 percent.

To earn more than 1 percent on your cash, the analysis found, you would probably have to tie your money up in a longer - term C.D.; five - year C.D.s now have average interest rates of more than 1.4 percent, and average rates at the most competitive national banks are approaching 2 percent.

«Credit unions continue to provide the best deals, offering over 10 times more interest on checking accounts than regional banks, as well as 573 % higher rates on savings accounts than national banks,» WalletHub says in an emailed summary of the study.

While the personal income tax, which has a top rate of 5 %, is slightly lower than the national average for state income taxes, the statewide sales tax of 7 % is slightly above the national average.

With the national unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, a 17 - year low, there are more job openings in the retail industry than at any time since the turn of the century, government data show.

If investors come to feel that the central bank is prepared to raise rates more aggressively than expected, then that could be a big headwind for equities, especially as all of Trump's policy proposals will add to US national debt.

Following the release of National Accounts data, however, which were a good deal stronger than expected and prompted many analysts to conclude that their earlier assessments of a slowing in the economy had been overstated, the exchange rate moved higher against all currencies.

Unemployment is also generally lower than the national average in this state, with July 2017 estimates at 4.3 % compared to the national rate of 4.4 %, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

Homeowners in the New Jersey pay the highest property taxes of any state in the country, with rates in some areas more than double the national average.

Keep this in mind: homeowners in the Garden State pay the highest property taxes of any state in the country, with rates in some areas more than double the national average.

The S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices released for February 2018 indicated that home prices nationwide, the National Home Price Index, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 6.3 % in February, modestly slower than the 6.7 % increase in January.

The rates are far higher than the typical hundredths of a percent earned at national banks such as Bank of America, but if you're already considering taking your savings online, you should expect to find savings rates over 1.00 % APY.

The state's average effective property tax rate is 1.00 %, somewhat lower than the national average of 1.19 %.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

Yes, the ECB, Riksbank, Swiss National Bank are at negative interest rates but it is the velocity that measures absolute zero rather than the relative level of interest rates.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that this particular field is growing at a rate of 15 percent, a number that is more than twice as high as the national average (closer to a 7 percent).

In general, the number of donor - advised funds at SICs has grown at a much slower rate than at National Charities or Community Foundations.

That's a much faster rate of appreciation than the national average.

Perhaps most strikingly, the rate of overdoses in West Virginia caused by prescription drugs was about 8.6 times higher in 2014 than in 1999, and annually rose an average of 26.6 % between those years, which was well above the national year - on - year change of 7.8 %.

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

Interest rates much higher than in the countries of the North contribute to the destruction of national producers; uncontrolled privatisation and denationalization develop in the search for the resources demanded by investors.