The basic point that decision makers, politicians, and perhaps most importantly the public need to understand is that even when the economy is growing and healthcare is receiving higher year-on-year rates of growth, the concept of shifting or re-allocating resources from lower to higher value program areas is essential.
Compared with the cost of dropping out, or of arraigning and incarcerating one juvenile for a year - the discipline, accountability and task persistence that Harmony Project students develop, and the fact that Harmony Project's student-musicians become respected role models in their neighborhoods - make Harmony Project a high-value program worthy of the national acclaim it has garnered.
"At $8 to $10, it doesn't have the economics to support high-value programming," he said.
Medicare and Medicaid are relatively efficient, high-quality, high-value programs that are more efficient and less costly than many private health plans.
High school guidance counselors have caseloads of 500, community colleges are bursting at the seams, and most who enter needing remediation do not get into high-value programs like nursing, information technology and finance, let alone ever complete a degree.
If the cuts do go forward, Congress and the administration need to find a way to give the Pentagon some flexibility to choose between high-value programs and those that can be ended, scaled back or delayed.
"Yan and his team offer the TV industry and advertisers a solution to make high-value programming and advertising decisions based on data they simply did not have before".
Our recommendations allow ITV to play to its core PSB strengths - high value originated programming and news.
The Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) puts research into practice in every county in New York by providing high value educational programs and resources that help solve real-life problems and improve New York families, farms, businesses, and communities.
TopCoder's mission is to create objective ratings that place high value on the programming industry's best and brightest, and build opportunity and community for programmers through ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections.
Despite these erosions to Canada's safety nets, many of our respondents, and especially immigrant families coming from countries with even less social protection, placed a high value on government programs, as this recent immigrant in Toronto expressed: When you lose your job [in my country] you don't have the resources where you can go to a food bank or go to welfare and get assistance, no.
