On Wednesday,the Federal Reserve kept its target rate near zero for overnight loans between banks.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Some critics partly blame the crisis on Americans' low savings rate and high personal debt.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

The graduation rate for schools so he has taken their focus on winning Taylor says students value sports, and applied it to academics.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Monteiro says tourism on Santiago is not growing at the rate of other Cape Verdean islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Ten years ago the rate was almost twice that. Today's rate is six percent, putting Cambodia well on its way to hitting its target.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

One problem health care providers have here is getting good data on the maternal mortality rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And this year, for the first time since 1991, that rate is on the rise.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Initial news of the BOJ's emergency meeting on Tuesday raised hopes of an interest rate cut, and stocks rose immediately after the BOJ's announcement Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Researchers adjusted their computer algorithm to the slower insulin absorption rate and on a repeat experiment blood glucose was tightly controlled in all of the subjects.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"There is a lot of corruption going on. The unemployment rate is too high.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

"And as you know, we revised them upward last week. We want to make sure that BP has enough capacity on hand to handle the increased flow rate estimates."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The strategy includes an effort to draw attention to recent rate increases imposed on Americans by major health insurance companies, and the impact this has had on people the president has heard from directly in letters he reads each day.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10