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  2. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F, with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. In some cases, grades can also be numerical. Numeric-to-letter-grade conversions generally vary from ...

  3. Labor force in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [1] Before the pandemic, the U.S. labor force had risen each year since 1960 with the ...

  4. Full employment - Wikipedia

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    Staiger, Stock, and Watson found that the range of possible values of the NAIRU (from 4.3 to 7.3% unemployment) was too large to be useful to macroeconomic policy-makers. Robert Eisner suggested that for 1956-95 there was a zone from about 5% to about 10% unemployment between the low-unemployment realm of accelerating inflation and the high ...

  5. Grading systems by country - Wikipedia

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    Colombia. The most used grading systems are the numerical from 0 to 5 or from 0 to 10 and commonly are approved with 3 or 6, respectively. The letter system consists of E, S, B, A, I and is approved with A. The letter system is based on the numerical, meaning that the numerical system guides the letter one.

  6. Rule of 72 - Wikipedia

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    In finance, the rule of 72, the rule of 70[1] and the rule of 69.3 are methods for estimating an investment 's doubling time. The rule number (e.g., 72) is divided by the interest percentage per period (usually years) to obtain the approximate number of periods required for doubling. Although scientific calculators and spreadsheet programs have ...

  7. The 4% rule for retirement: Is it time to rethink this ... - AOL

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    The 4% rule is designed to make your retirement savings last for 30 years. For example, if you retire at age 65 with $1 million in savings, the rule suggests you can withdraw $40,000 per year ...

  8. Employment-to-population ratio - Wikipedia

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    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines the employment rate as the employment-to-population ratio. [1] This is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often given for ages 15 to 64 [2][3]) that is employed. This includes people that have stopped looking ...

  9. Academic grading in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Level 4, beyond government standards (A; 80 percent and above) Level 3, at government standards (B; 70–79 percent) Level 2, approaching government standards (C; 60–69 percent) Level 1, well below government standards (D; 50–59 percent) The grading standards for A− letter grades changed in September 2010 to coincide with a new academic year.