All three tax rates would go up, too, with the top rate rising to 45% from the current 40%.
And official forecasts see the unemployment rate rising to 8.7% in 2012.
Today's jobs data showed the unemployment rate rising to 7.9 percent.
Fresh data Thursday showed Greece's jobless rate rising to a new record in March, and with the proportion of young people without jobs now topping 50%.
Moreover, better economic tidings are putting upward pressure on rates, with the 10-year Treasury rate rising to 2.25% as of March 22, from 1.97% on Feb. 29 and 1.98% at year-end, according to Bloomberg.com and the Federal Reserve.
Japan's exports also moved swiftly up the value chain, but whereas this was not enough to support durable gains in its market share, China has the advantage of capital controls that will prevent its exchange rate rising as abruptly as Japan's did in the 1980s.
The city's obesity rate is rising, and studies have linked sugary drinks to weight gain, they note.
City officials say New York's obesity rate is rising, having reached 24% of adults, up from 18% in 2002.
Overseas students increased at a sharper rate, rising by more than 20%.
Apart from a slowing growth rate, rising prices and sluggish industrial production have also been a source of concern for the government.
Insurance companies in Hong Kong, for example, are reporting record results at the same time as the city's unemployment rate is rising.
It has been infusing billions of dollars into the banking system in recent days to keep that rate from rising above the target level.
India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.
In France, make-work schemes in the public sector have kept the jobless rate from rising too far, says Laurence Boone, at Barclays Capital in Paris.
The stillbirth charity Sands welcomed the fall, but noted that as the birth rate is rising the number of babies who die remains the same.
However, shopping in Spain is very cheap, and with the exchange rate generally rising in my favour, the cost of living for me is slowly falling.
The premium rate is rising at the same time transaction volume continues to rise, with many new developments already sold out before the foundation even gets installed.
The U.S. economy generated 76, 000 jobs per month last year, only 84, 000 per month short of what is needed to simply keep the unemployment rate from rising.
During 2010, the Chinese consumer-price inflation rate was rising.
"And at a time when the unemployment rate is rising faster than at any point in the past 20 years, this idea would cost another 300, 000 jobs in the construction industry, including more than 11, 000 right here in Pennsylvania, " he said.
If interest rates rise, active fixed-income investors could invest in short-term bonds, which tend to remain fairly stable in rising rate environments, or use floating rate funds, which are more insulated from the negative impact of rising rates.
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One reason the rich keep getting richer is that the rate of corporate profits keeps rising at a much faster rate than wages.
Exchange rate risk is rising, creating greater obstacles to foreign investment flows into the emerging-market countries.
Rising rate environments are not all the same nor will all bonds perform in lock-step.
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In a rising rate environment, the government-sponsored organization could have to accept lower prices for its securitized loan portfolios.
The index benefitted also from the interest rate spread and rising housing permits.
Another popular strategy in a rising rate environment is to keep the duration of your fixed income investments short.
The US female labor force participation rate, is rising over time, and for most of recent history higher than in Japan.
Another issue: more than half of Shurgard's debt is variable-rate, meaning rising interest rates could hurt its profitability, according to Litt.
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