Job retraining is also ineffective without job creation, a point made by several economists who have long cautioned against placing too much stock in it.
Critics have said it is ineffective when jobs are so scarce, and the city's comptroller issued a stinging report this year blaming the city for lax oversight.
Yet now -- despite an incomplete and ineffective patch-job of repair efforts -- the latest tests show highly toxic levels of lead contaminated water still flowing through the local water taps.
The cane toad, brought to Australia to control the native greyback cane beetle, proved to be largely ineffective at that job but horribly effective at killing other native species (sometimes by eating them but mostly, because it is extremely poisonous, by being eaten).
The lower court judge based his opinion on estimates that 1% to 3% of teachers are ineffective at their jobs.
Janet Reno, the former United States attorney general who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, questioned whether the controversy would render Mr. Regier ineffective in his new job.
Charter schools, which are publicly financed but operate independently, were founded in opposition to teachers' unions; many of the movement's supporters view union contracts as a fundamental flaw in public education that keeps ineffective teachers on the job.
Just before launching his campaign in May 2011, he said on the Today show that Obama has "been one of the most ineffective presidents at the job at hand that I've ever seen".
The reforms also abolished ineffective instruments (e.g., job-creation schemes), reorganized long-term unemployment benefits, and introduced the requirement to prove job search effort.2 As a result, some impressive developments in the German labor market were observed.
