This can be especially appealing considering the present high unemployment rate and the rising costs of attending college.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

"I started thinking about where else can I get some kind of reasonable rate of return where return can actually be defined more fully than just how much money did I make."

VOA: special.2011.01.14

"I see a lot more children who are coming into the office either because their parents have noticed that they have headaches or red or watery eyes or discomfort, or because their prescription, their near-sightedness, appears to be increasing at a fast rate and they're worried."

VOA: special.2011.08.01

Pillay says he has seen significant improvement and is sure the target of five percent transmission rate will be reached.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

While that rate is far from ideal, Lo points out that the lower rate will still be a significant improvement for Cambodian families.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"It will continue to be soft, given the fact the rate at which there is price increase,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"The unemployment rate could,could, at its worst be over 10 percent before it starts to get better,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

They persist because of the country's high rate of violent crime, as expressed by this Johannesburg resident who did not want to be identified.

VOA: standard.2009.06.12

U.S.Army personnel predicted the suicide rate would be higher than the total in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Analysts say despite the spike, they expect exchange rate reform to be gradual.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

But he says for this year Yemen's economic prospects are poor, and the country would be lucky to grow at half the rate the Central Bank has projected.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

"He is at 50 or below in most surveys, and that is mainly because of the economy, which continues to be stubbornly weak, the unemployment rate is very high and still in double-digits, and as a consequence Obama does not have much margin for error,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05