Sentences with phrase «top tenth of a percent»
They deserve a hard - working, honest governor who will fight for all of them and not just the top tenth of a percent.
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On top of the more buoyant outlook for overall growth, Fed officials cut their estimates for the unemployment rate, to 3.9 percent in 2018 and 2019, two - tenths below the previous numbers.
«What democratic socialism is about,» Sanders declared, is «that it is immoral and wrong that the top one - tenth of 1 percent in this country... own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.»
In these types of ventures, the gross loan portfolio appears large — but consider that the actual net revenue or return from these businesses is anywhere from a tenth of a basis point, topping out at 1 - 2 percent.
According to estimates from the Tax Policy Center, the top fifth of earners receive nearly three - quarters of the benefit of the deduction, while the top tenth of earners receive half percent of the benefit.
For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.
Among the «talented tenth,» those in the top 10 percent of NAEP test - takers, reading scores have dropped four points since 1971, and math scores have not budged since they were first measured in 1978 (see Figure 1).
«Seventeen percent of California's charter schools are in the top tenth of performance statewide on a Similar Schools Measure and nearly a third of all California charters are in the top quartile.
The percentage of Ferguson - Florissant's black children condemned to the top five special ed categories is just three - tenths of a percentage point higher than the 9.5 percent of kids in St. Louis» perpetually - failing traditional district labeled in the top five special ed categories.
(04/22/2013) While the month of March saw colder - than - average temperatures across a wide - swath of the northern hemisphere — including the U.S., southern Canada, Europe, and northern Asia — globally, it was the tenth warmest March on record in the last 134 years, putting it in the top 7 percent.