Sentences with phrase «today than a decade»

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

«Given that disadvantaged children and teens enrolled in Medicaid, a public insurance program, are disproportionately diagnosed with ADHD, these are important policy questions to address: why are there more children taking ADHD drugs today than a decade ago, what benefits do they deliver and at what cost.»

Twice as many 10 - to 14 - year - olds are committing suicide today than a decade ago, and suicide now accounts for more middle school student deaths than car crashes.

Fisher Black and Myron Scholes» elegant option pricing proof is no less valid today than a decade ago.

It's not a lot different today than a decade ago, he said.

More younger partners are involved in the management process today than a decade ago.

Not exact matches

The network announced Wednesday morning that Lauer had been terminated from NBC News after more than two decades as co-host of the Today Show following accusations of sexual misconduct.

Upon doing their due diligence, the mother - daughter duo discovered that the parent company, Winmark Corp., had more than 1,130 stores (up to 1,154 today) throughout North America and had been franchising resale concepts — five, to date — for almost three decades.

The differences we uncovered between the»80s revolutionaries and today's company builders were as startling to our minds as a first taste of Ben & Jerry's «Orgasmic Flavors» of ice cream was to our palates more than two decades ago.

Lots more people today can go online in some fashion than were able to a decade ago, so, what, we wait 20 years for the olds of today to die off so the olds of tomorrow have smartphones?

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

Fortescue Metals Group surprised investors earlier today with a better - than - expected December quarter production report, but that should not stop speculation that it could be a key player in Western Australia's deal of the decade.

In response to the uproar, Trump issued a rare apology: «I've said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade - old video are one of them.»

Today there are more Airstreams on the road than ever before, and, remarkably, most of those were made in the past decade or so.

Charles Hanes, a Toronto real estate agent for more than three decades, doesn't like what he's seeing today.

«Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who were around more than a decade ago during the dot - com mania say fund - raising today requires meeting a higher bar — namely, a working product and some marketplace traction — than it did in the late 1990s,» The Journal notes.

Asked Shenfeld: «When it's claimed that today's median American family is worse off than one decade ago, do we really capture the benefits from the existence of the Internet, cellphones and other goods that couldn't have been in the earlier consumption basket at any price?»

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

«The growth of electronic payment systems and the increasing marginalisation of cash in legal transactions creates a much smoother path to negative rate policy today than even two decades ago.»

As a result, the economics of Energy East are likely better today than they would have been at almost any point in the last couple of decades.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2 / 3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

The price of insulin — a lifesaving drug — has reached record highs as Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi raised prices more than 240 percent over the past decade to often over $ 300 a vial today, with price rises frequently in lockstep, according to information technology firm Connecture.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

«After more than a decade of promises to do better, how is today's apology different and why should we trust Facebook to make the necessary changes to ensure user privacy and give people a clearer picture of your privacy policies?»

About a decade ago China was a minor player in solar panel manufacturing, but today it's a global powerhouse and creates more than two - thirds of the world's panels.

The data here demonstrate that the cash cost of the average residential property in Canada is much higher today than through most of the last five decades.

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In other words, the median asking rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

«Buyers today have so much more information than they did a decade ago.

In the decade since, more than a billion people have joined Facebook, and today they share a flood of stories every day.

However, the decline in the real neutral rate means that any given setting of our policy rate will be less stimulative today than it was a decade or two ago.

Caretrust is a great value today, trading for less than 11 times company guidance for 2018 funds from operations, and with a big trend making it an excellent long - term investment: baby boomers retiring in huge numbers in the coming decades.

The United States is in a different place today than it was three decades ago, many say.

With fewer than 200 total properties today, Caretrust is well - positioned to grow from both consolidation and industry expansion over the next decade - plus.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund today sounded the alarm on excessive global borrowing, warning that with a total of $ 164 trillion owed, the world's public and private sectors are deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis a decade ago.

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

Not only are mortgage lenders approving more purchase and refinance loans than during any period this decade, but there is a growing number of low - and no - downpayment programs for today's first - time and repeat buyers to use; and for investors to use, as well.

Our perspective is straightforward: on the basis of measures that have been reliably correlated with actual subsequent market returns in market cycles across a century of data, we estimate that the S&P 500 Index will be no higher a decade from now than it is today.

It is tragic, therefore, that in the United States today, federal infrastructure investment, net of depreciation, is running close to zero, and net government investment is lower than at any time in nearly six decades.

Rates today are historically much lower than during past decades.

In the next several decades at least, many more hydrocarbons will be burned than are burned today.

It's been less than a decade since the housing bubble burst, yet home prices in the UK and US today hover near new highs.

In today's mortgage market environment, there is a bevy of low - and no - downpayment mortgage options available which make it simpler to purchase a home than during any period this decade.

This statement is even truer today, more than two decades later.

Compared to bonds, stocks have a higher current yield, and unlike bonds are likely to be worth more in a decade than they are today.

Today's tech companies bear little resemblance to the makeshift operations that quickly burned through cash more than a decade ago, says Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley & Co.'s Chief US Equity Strategist.