Now consider Washington, D.C., where a paltry 2% rise in new construction contributes to an expected 5% rise in District rents.
"Less than half of nursing staff at the top of their pay increment will get a paltry 1% rise, following three years of pay restraint.
But research by Deloitte predicted British retailers overall would see a paltry 1% rise in Christmas sales this year despite a jump in online and smartphone shopping.
They have just been offered a paltry pay rise of 2% and thousands of female workers also suffer from huge pay disparities due to equal pay laws still not being implemented".
But only 3,065 Nanos were sold, a paltry 2% rise on the year before (and well down on September), with cumulative sales for the year reaching just 40,467.One reason is that the new car is tricky to find: it is being marketed only in a few parts of India, as Tata struggles to get a new factory up to speed, which in time should churn out 100,000 cars a year.
Hourly earnings rose just 1.7% in the year to March, a paltry raise that will soon be eaten up by the rising cost of petrol and grocery bills.
Paltry pay rises, as well as job losses, mean employment income is probably growing by less than 3%, well below the inflation rate.
Roughly 20% of humanitarian aid is now spent responding to disasters, whereas a paltry (but rising) 0.7% is spent on preventive measures taken to mitigate their possible consequences, according to the World Bank.A Dutch rethinkThe Netherlands, whose existence has long been at the mercy of nature, may be at the forefront of rethinking how to cope with it.
Young and middle-aged people should be under no illusion that last week's concessions to pensioners, angry at the paltry recent rises in the state pensions, will create a system that takes the pressure off individuals to save privately for retirement.
According to UCU figures, last year the Universities and College Employers Association offered university staff a paltry 1% pay rise, which actually amounts to a 13% pay cut since 2009.
