Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.
Thus, to obtain a reasonable estimate of state-level job impacts, we average the three approaches.
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That puts DSL providers at a particular disadvantage, a Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) executive testified, because state and local telecom taxes are so high--an average of 13.9% of bills across the U.S., compared to an average 6% sales tax on other goods and services.
And the Netherlands, where 70% of children attend independent state-funded schools, comes well above average in the OECD's ranking.
Word is that in California, a lane-splitting state, the Guzzi will average in the high 30 miles per gallon on gas.
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In the last few years, for example, OfficeMax, Dial, Airborne Express and Pennzoil-Quaker State were acquired at an average 120% premium to Marker's cost.
They found the average state receives a 40-50% boost in earmarks in the year following a chairman's appointment, an increase that persisted for the rest of his tenure.
In short, using the methodology of studies such as those done in Florida, claims of Medicaid job gains are overstated by nearly two-fifths for the average state and may be overstated by considerably more than that for particular states considering expansion.
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Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
Every state in the contiguous United States saw above-average temperatures in 2012, with 19 of them setting annual records of their own, NOAA said.
If you think about it, before that law was signed the average school here in this state -- the lunch had more than 900 calories.
Instead, death is modified by ludicrously lengthy appeals (the average stay of execution for state-imposed sentences is now almost nine years) which put off the day of accounting, but do not remove it altogether.
Glen Cove students' test scores in 2011-12 were slightly above the state's average.
Easley had focused on his record as governor, including declining unemployment -- down 2 percentage points over two years -- and rising average test scores in state schools.
Summer temperatures in the Lone Star State averaged 30.4 degrees Celsius (86.7 degrees Fahrenheit) -- 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average, according to the WMO and the highest-ever recorded in any American state.
The average U.S. top combined state-federal marginal tax rate would hit about 52%.
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Lillard, the sixth overall pick in last June's draft out of Weber State, led all rookies with a 19-point scoring average.
Wells Fargo has lower legal costs than many of its rivals (see chart) but still receives around 300 state, federal and grand-jury subpoenas a week on average.
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Vermonters pay less for power than any other state in New England, an average of 13 cents a kilowatt-hour.
But it was the off-stage drama that prompted more than double the average State of the Union audience to tune in.
The average state and local effective tax rate on telecom services--some of which is paid directly by customers and some of which is levied on the companies, who then pass on the cost--is 14.17% throughout the U.S., compared to 6.12% for general businesses, according to the COST study.
State-level GDP figures suggest a performance in line with India's average in recent decades.
The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
"It simply isn't fair that households on out-of-work benefits can receive a greater income from the state than the average working household gets in wages, " he said.
But Gulf-wide, shrimp landings in 2011 and 2012 were about 15% below the 2000-09 average, according to figures compiled by Mississippi State University's Coastal Research and Extension Center.
Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.
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Under four-and-a-half years of Ms Mayawati's rule, the state has recorded an average of over 7% growth a year, a tad less than India's average of 8.15%.
And when you average all of that out over this entire state, think about it -- it might mean registering just one more person in your town.
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The tracking tags gave NISD a better idea of the numbers of students attending classes each day - the daily average of which dictates how much cash it gets from state coffers.
According to Child Care Aware of America, in 36 states the average annual cost of having a kid in daycare now exceeds in-state college tuition.
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