In 2007, the Social Security Trustees suggested that either the payroll tax could increase to 16.41 percent in 2041 and steadily increased to 17.60 percent in 2081 or a cut in benefits by 25 percent in 2041 and steadily increased to an overall cut of 30 percent in 2081.
effective rate of protection. the real amount of PROTECTION accorded to domestic suppliers of a final product when a TARIFF is applied to a competing imported final product (see IMPORTS), but either no tariff, or a lower rate of tariff, is applied on FACTOR INPUTS that are imported to produce that product.
An offense rate, or crime rate, defined as the number of offenses per 100,000 population, is derived by first dividing a jurisdictionâs population by 100,000 and then dividing the number of offenses by the resulting figure. clearance rate differs conceptually from a crime or arrest rate in that both the numerator and denominator constitute the same unit of count (i.e., crimes). Unlike a crime or arrest rate, a clearance rate represents percentage data. A clearance rate is, therefore, equivalent to the percentage of crime cleared.