One option that has not yet been discussed is a model based on the familiar rate-setting process followed in most states for setting the rates that public utilities, insurers and nursing homes may charge.
They are likely to return to familiar rates of growth per worker, though not all laid-off workers will benefit from the upturn.
For the familiarity rating scale, 5 = very familiar, 4 = fairly familiar, 3 = neither familiar nor unfamiliar, 2 = nearly unknown, and 1 = totally unknown.
The study, by the Community Service Society, a nonprofit group that serves the poor, is based on data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and focuses on the so-called employment-population ratio -- the fraction of the working-age population with a paid job -- in addition to the more familiar unemployment rate, the percentage of the labor force actively looking for work.
Health insurance premiums are increasing 10percentto30percentcenationwideide, according to employers, insurers and regional business groups familiar with rates being paid by dozens of companies.
Uniquely, an ecolabel was used in the design, based on familiar energy rating labels, to communicate the environmental pressure of fish farming to respondents.
Thus, the most familiar pieces rated low on pleasure were then selected as control stimuli for each person.
This trope professed confusion about Obama's religious identity, and, in some circles, his identity as an American has become increasingly familiar, at any rate.
Numbers provide the backdrop to the story — not just the grimly familiar national unemployment rate, 9.5percentt in June, but the even scarier, less publicized unemployment figure for 16- to 19-year-olds, which has hit 24percentt, up from 16.1percenttwo years agogo.
Being a technology enthusiast and early adopter means being intimately familiar with the rate it takes for new technology to drop in price to a level where it's sustainable as a true consumer product.
