Today Americans purchase so many foreign-produced goods and services that even large stimulus programs produce virtually no new net growth or employment at home.
Unfortunately, Schmidt reckons, the Botswana-level teacher programs produce about 60 percent of America's future middle school math teachers.
But when asked about which programs produce higher reading scores, the guy lit up and became a fountain of facts and findings.
When it comes to delivering a baby, it really does matter where a doctor was trained: some residency programs produce better obstetricians than others.
These programs produce goods and services that are sold to outside customers, often government agencies, schools, and nonprofits; it is through one of these programs that inmates were producing milk and tilapia destined for Whole Foods.
That is partly because treatment programs produce tangible, dramatic evidence of money well spent, while an averted infection is almost impossible to show, even though prevention is more cost-effective in the long run, the panel's experts say.
