The misconduct of a few represents a small percentage of the seven million pupils in the school system.
With an estimated 43 million Americans lacking health insurance and a medical care system that eats up ever-larger percentage of the gross domestic product, health care remains an intractable issue.
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Social Security's actuaries assert that a two-percentage-point increase in payroll taxes would render the system solvent for another 75 years.
Kickstarter, which uses the Amazon Payments system, makes a profit by taking a small percentage of the funds donated to each project.
Employers can easily help their employees save for a rainy day, leveraging the payroll system and direct deposit to automatically send a small percentage of their paychecks to a savings account.
The greatest threat to the integrity of the Social Security system was removed by allowing the temporary, 2-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security Payroll tax to lapse.
Rural India's purchases of chyawanprash, an ayurvedic paste that eases digestion and bolsters the immune system, outpaced urban India's by over six percentage points in the second quarter.
Of its 10.2% deficit in 2012, 3.2 percentage points was due to the cost of cleaning up its banking system, which has been decimated by loans made to property developers and speculators during the last decade's housing bubble that have since proved unrepayable.
Sure, we have a progressive tax system in that the higher your income, the greater the percentage you pay.
Lower Taxes, in the first instance, means a plan to raise the same amount of revenue, as a percentage of GDP, with a much more efficient and business-friendly tax system.
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Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.
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Finally, the integrity of the Social Security system and its financial strength should be protected by allowing the temporary 2 percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax to lapse.
The blue-chip Dow is building on a 788-point surge last week, its biggest weekly percentage gain since mid-July 2009, after central banks infused the global financial system with cheap dollar loans.
But slowing the rise of health-care costs can't address the challenge of adding 50 million uninsured to the system while keeping expenditures the same or even somewhat lower than the unsustainable percentage of national wealth that they already represent.
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When the current expansion of free-trade accords has covered an overwhelming percentage of world trade, it may be possible for the WTO to fix the system, so no nation has preferential bias with one or another trading partner over others countries.
Confindustria is pressing the government for more reform of the unsustainable pension system (Italy spends 13% of GDP on the elderly, almost four percentage points more than the average for the EU 15 richer economies).
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So set up a system that gives the marquee players a chance to cash in on a certain percentage of the merchandising and licensing royalties they earn for their schools, and put those monies aside for such players so they can access in full either upon graduation or until they have used up their eligibility.
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Comparing income before and after taxes, CBO says the tax system cut the share of income going to the top 20% by about seven percentage points in 2007, most of that coming from the top 1%.
New York has long had a system that rates teachers as "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory, " with a very small percentage receiving a poor evaluation each year.
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