Without help, these children are destined to become lost adults who use overwhelming amounts of unproductive government resources.
I would love to see an exploration on the ethics of allocating so much of society's resources to unproductive, retired workers.
In brief, the U.S. raid on Yemen was prodigal in cost, profligate in resources, and unproductive in results.
It's a world where people are reduced to human resources and where "unproductive" members of society are rendered invisible.
"Too many DOD structures, processes, programs and operational concepts are legacies of the past, which create unnecessary redundancies, waste valuable resources and encourage unproductive competition among the services rather than cooperation," the study says.
Top management is responsible for making the tough calls on how long to incubate something without pouring resources down an unproductive rat-hole.
"In every campaign, time is a finite resource, so it is unproductive to spend it worrying about the way Obama is covered," said Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain.
We lose net tax revenue; we incur risks of financial instability; entrepreneurial resource is diverted into unproductive activity; we create a culture that celebrates financial oligarchs and their values rather than what goes on in our great universities and great companies.
In particular, distortions make too many resources be allocated to small unproductive firms, generating big output losses.
Unproductive lab members, Johnson says, use costly resources, and other members of the lab are usually appreciative when the principal investigator asks a poor performer to leave.
