Girls are at a disadvantage in other ways, too, and have a higher drop-out rate than boys.
The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
But among the children of Hispanic immigrants, the drop-out rate is much lower.
Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
While women represent 53% of new hires, the drop-off rate of women at each level up the ladder is startling: 37% of the next-level promotions go to women while only 14% of executive committees are female.
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
And the average daily hotel room rate -- they drop when the vacancy rate is up -- was down more than 31 percent in the city's March 2008-March 2009 comparison.
Well, you can do what Alan Greenspan did in 2001--drop the discount rate to 1%.
The decline came because of a 20 basis point drop in the labor-force participation rate.
The substantial drop in delinquency rate and loan-to-value ratio for borrowers who purchased homes in the years after 2007 is likely a product of the tightened lending standards implemented in the post-bubble housing market.
Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics shows the rate of teenage conception in 2010 fell below 35, 000 - a drop of nearly 10% on the previous year, and the lowest rate since 1969.
Also, as evidenced by the sharp drop in the savings rate to a post-crisis low of 2.4%, Americans may respond to the decline in disposable income by spending less.
It should fall steadily next year, as this year's VAT and energy-price increases drop out of the annual rate, reaching the 2% target by December, says Simon Hayes of Barclays Capital.
Nannytax, a payroll company that deals with 6, 000 households, recorded a drop in the rate of pay for live-in nannies in Central London for the first time since its survey began seven years ago (see chart).
Except for a too-brief drop in the 1920s the income tax rate remained high.
Hoffman expects the 15-year fixed rate mortgage to eventually drop to 2.75%, as well.
On Tuesday, Germany - the biggest economy in Europe - saw its bond yield drop below the inflation rate for first time since reunification.
The rate drop for consumers currently paying interest was a little larger, but on an inflation-adjusted basis, this rate has dropped just a fraction of 1 percent.
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Those skeptics say the dropping unemployment rate mostly is from a drop in able-bodied people quitting the job search (and lowering labor force participation).
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And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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There were some population adjustments based on more recent Census data that make the change from December to January confusing, but apparently labor force drop-outs did not account from the large decline in the unemployment rate.
Of the 20 best-educated metropolitan areas, only four saw their employment rate drop further than the national average, according to Brookings's Alan Berube.
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Twenty high-profile economists have urged the government to drop the top 50p tax rate, which they say is doing "lasting damage" to the UK economy.
The real Fed Funds rate averaged 3%-plus, leaving gold to drop three-quarters of its real dollar value inside 20 years, as the real value of cash-on-deposit doubled.
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Amazon's spending on employee additions, fulfillment centers and data infrastructure contributed to a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profit, as the company's normally impressive rate of quarterly revenue growth missed expectations.
Pennsylvania, which requires the most extensive reporting of hospital-acquired infections, saw the annual rate for all infections drop 8 percent, according to the most recent figures available from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
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California now lags behind the rest of the country in the rate at which the number of its jobs filled by high-school drop-outs is declining.
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