Sentences with phrase «worse than the national rate»

With an unemployment rate worse than the national rate and even that of the province as a whole, the City of Toronto could have used those jobs.

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She's all for combating hunger, but Chicago's child obesity rate is 28 percent, that's 1.5 times higher than the national average, and offering extra food to kids who already ate at home is bound to make that worse.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A recent national study that reported Syracuse has the nation's highest lead poisoning rate is flawed and makes the lead problem here appear far worse than it is, according to Onondaga County Health Department officials.

A recent national study that reported Syracuse has the nation's highest lead poisoning rate is flawed and makes the lead problem here appear far worse than it is, according to Onondaga County Health Department officials.

More than 450,000 babies are born too soon in the U.S. and the national preterm birth rate is worse than many other high - resource countries, the March of Dimes says.

A policy brief from the National Educational Policy Center shows that K12's schools have had significantly worse test scores and graduation rates than brick - and - mortar schools.

Although California is not the worst state for uninsured drivers, the rate is still higher than the national average.

A spokesman for the national for - profit higher education corporation Kaplan, Inc., which owns the school, noted that the program's earnings results were only somewhat worse than the $ 14,651 average for all Texas medical - assistant programs, and that unemployment rates were unusually high in those years.