HUD's vouchers work on the basis that you should spend 30% of your income on rent, but if your rent is pegged at that proportion, there is less incentive to try to get a pay rise.
The Centre for Cities then looked at the proportion of unemployed young people who have been out of work for more than a year to come up with the prediction of 350, 000 long-term unemployed 16 to 24 year olds by December 2011.
In maths, the proportion at Level 5 is at a record high of 35%, almost three times higher than in 1995.
Now, the school is home to many American students who wished to enroll at a top-ranked British university, which carries the prestige of an elite, private American college at a tiny proportion of the cost.
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At Berkeley, the proportion of undergraduate students who pay nonresident tuition is 16%.
That rate has declined more slowly than the firearms homicide rate, with 6 in 10 gun deaths now suicides, the highest proportion since at least 1981.
The discounts have widened over the past year, playing into Valero's hands: 70% of its refineries are equipped to process the lowest-quality crude, a higher proportion than at any of the other big refiners.
And it is clear that the amount of honour on offer at the Solheim Cup has gone up in proportion to the rise in prize money at LPGA tournaments.
At community colleges, the proportion will rise from 58 percent to 85 percent.
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Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, at 16%, a proportion expected to grow to 30% over the next four decades.
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Now put at 90%, the proportion may reach 95% by 2010.
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In general, retailers have learned to focus far more on lowering prices, and in particular to stock a larger proportion of products at the low end of the price range.
At 38 weeks, the proportion was 5.1% of elective Caesarean babies compared with 1.7% of those born naturally or by emergency Caesarean, and at 39 weeks, 2.1% compared with 1.1%.
Still, a slightly larger proportion of shoppers at the discounter, known to cater to more cash-strapped, lower income households, plans to spend more for the upcoming holiday season (9.5%) compared to JC Penney shoppers (7.4%).
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The figures also show the proportion of pupils at schools rated as inadequate achieving five good GCSEs rises by 10.6 percentage points to 42.3% if equivalent qualifications are included, while in outstanding schools it rises 4.6 percentage points to 68.1%.
It is surely better to rethink the career structure of your employees than to see it wither (the proportion of professors at four-year universities who are on track to win tenure fell from 50% in 1997 to 39% ten years later).
Without this change, Mr Powers says, the proportion of minorities at his university will decline: the top-10% plan yields only about 25% black and Hispanic students, but the university could admit far more if it retained control over the other half of its class.
So there was no national expectation of success at school for young people - although nearly half of 11 year-olds were not even up to standard in the basics of literacy and numeracy and a similar proportion left school at or soon after 16 with few if any qualifications.
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The proportion of foreign companies at Gamescom is now 50 percent (up from 45 percent in 2010).
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Between 2006 and 2008 the proportion of Muslim pupils at the Atheneum rose from half to 80%.
At the same time, the proportion of those 65 years old and above will increase to 39.9 percent.
The proportion of teenagers achieving at least five good GCSEs including English and maths has fallen for the first time, official figures show.
They have been ploughing more and more into the system as a proportion of their resources at the expense of other areas such as leisure centres and libraries.
The museum collection--featuring bronzes, pottery, porcelain, paintings and calligraphy--is so vast that only a small proportion can be displayed at one time, while the remainder is stored in vaults within the hills behind the museum.
There will also be a multi-million pound pilot project, involving about 60, 000 pupils, aimed at helping schools with a high proportion of children who get free school meals to offer a much wider range of extra-curricular activities.
At the beginning of November, Moneyfacts reported that more than two-thirds of the mortgage deals on offer in the UK still required a deposit of at least 20%, a proportion that had hardly changed since a month earlier.
As we shall see in a moment, it is quite possible for a country such as the United States to successfully raise average levels of achievement while doing little to increase the number or proportion of students achieving at more sophisticated levels.
The parish of St Minver Lowlands, near Rock, has the highest proportion in the county, at 42.9%.
This was the highest proportion of NO votes received at any major U.K. bank so far in 2011.
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Furthermore, although the total number of illiterate adults is decreasing worldwide, the proportion of women remains constant at around 64%.
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