• It should come as no surprise then that the poverty rate in Washington was 18.7% in 2011.

    CNN: Reduce poverty by promoting schools, families

  • Yet the police are happy to attribute a 53% decline in the burglary rate in Washington's inner suburbs, between 1977 and 1997, to Neighbourhood Watch and car alarms.

    ECONOMIST: Defeating the bad guys

  • There are several first-rate proposals in Washington that would achieve these goals, but, naturally, they are languishing.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • One of Schiff's holdings, a pool mainly of adjustable-rate mortgages originated by Washington Mutual and packaged by Fannie in late 2004, has an average loan age of 15 years and yields 3.2%.

    FORBES: Investment Guide

  • Although the law enforcement agency does not offer public analysis of its figures, the high check rate occurs amid debate in Washington over new gun control measures mainly in response to December's school shooting in Connecticut.

    CNN: Gun checks top two million for fourth-straight month

  • Disappointment in the high U.S. unemployment rate should fuel new thinking in Washington, D.

    FORBES: Want More Jobs? Then, We Need More Startups

  • D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, said the birth rate, rather than immigration, is the primary driving factor in the Latino boom.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Contrary to Washington mythology, the Reagan tax rate reductions did not undercut revenues, and the H.

    FORBES: Do We Face A Government Default, Or De-End?

  • Given the current climate in Washington, we expect E-rate to disappear at some point over the next couple of years.

    ENGADGET: Gov't may scrap E-rate funding of school, library net services

  • The BBC's Jane Little in Washington says New Orleans has a high rate of gun crime.

    BBC: New Orleans Mother's Day parade hit by shooting

  • Employment growth, thanks to boom-times for lobbyists and their ilk, has reduced metro Washington, DC's, unemployment rate from 6.2% to 6%.

    ECONOMIST: American firms are hiring again, but hold the cheers

  • The shares of financial services giant Washington Mutual have been dragged down by interest rate worries.

    FORBES: When Patience Pays

  • In fact, the existence of LSAs and RSAs will create pressure to make all investment income and gains tax free, just as money market funds in the mid-1970s ended Washington's long-standing interest-rate controls for bank deposits.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "Most spine devices are of uncertain efficacy and probably add to the complication rate, " says internist Richard Deyo at the University of Washington.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • But if liberals won't accept a lower tax rate for capital gains and dividends, perhaps the grand deal in Washington could be to tax everything at 16% or 17%.

    WSJ: Stephen Moore: Flat Is the New Fair

  • Finance ministers from the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan will meet in Washington on Friday to consider responses, including coordinated interest rate cuts, to the global credit crisis.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • She said she also got a better rate by booking a seat on one of the earliest trains to Washington, where she was going to spend the holiday with her family and attend her 20th high school reunion.

    NPR: Americans Take Off for Thanksgiving

  • Wall Street investors are expecting another rate cut when the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee meets in Washington on Oct. 28-29.

    NPR: Fed Helps Money Markets As Credit Stabilizes

  • The policy announcement was approved unanimously by the Federal Open Market Committee, the group of Fed board members in Washington and Fed regional bank presidents who set the federal funds rate.

    NPR: Fed Lowers Discount Rate to Calm Markets

  • In 2004 under President George W. Bush, Washington let corporations temporarily bring money from offshore profits at a flat rate of around 5.25%.

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  • Washington (CNN) -- The United States is quickening the rate at which it is stepping back in Afghanistan.

    CNN: Obama, Karzai agree to accelerate military transition

  • The back and forth in Washington is seen as just more noise to the students who face a rate increase on July 1.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "Antarctica is so cold that even if warming occurs it won't melt" at the rate seen in Greenland, said Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and a co-author of the new paper.

    WSJ: Polar Ice Sheets Melt at Faster Pace

  • The jobless rate of 4.7% is lower even than in that other American boomtown, Washington, D.

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  • In states with a lot of Hispanic immigration, the rate is surprisingly high: 14% in California and Nevada, around 11% in Washington state, Colorado and Arizona.

    ECONOMIST: The Americano dream

  • The Senate bill has tried to address this concern by ramping up the rate at the million dollar mark, according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in an interview with the Washington Post.

    FORBES: The Ins And Outs Of The Buffett Rule

  • On Dec. 14, while he was riding Amtrak's Acela train from New York to Washington, he opened an e-mail that detailed problems in the auction-rate markets, which were seizing up because of the blossoming credit crisis.

    FORBES: Legal

  • The next potential risk event for the exchange rate between the dollar and the yen could be the Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in Washington set to commence later, where it's possible that representatives of other countries could express their view on Japan's quantitative easing program and its potential impact on the global economy.

    WSJ: Asian Shares Fall as Commodities Slide

  • Washington, for example, has a tradition of hands-off libertarianism and a low churchgoing rate.

    ECONOMIST: Gay marriage

  • This flat rate would make filing your taxes easier and would grow the economy and provide more options and fewer restrictions from Washington.

    FORBES: Sam Brownback

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