Sentences with phrase «wasting billions of dollars each year»

Together, machines and meetings have created a massively ineffective, interrupted and disturbed workforce that is wasting billions of dollars each year.

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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Approximately 1.3 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year worldwide at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Funny Bunny Director: Alison Bagnall Cast: Kentucker Audley, Joslyn Jensen, Olly Alexander, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Josephine Decker, Louis Cancelmi, Grace Gonglewski, Nicholas Webber, Caridad de la Luz Synopsis: «Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity and the billions of dollars wasted each year on junk food subsidies.

And early this month a study of 10,000 teachers by the nonprofit TNTP said that teacher workshops and training that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste (although some critics took issue with the methodology of the study).

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has repeatedly declared that PD is largely a waste of billions of dollars a year.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

Indeed, a study released this week by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) shows that billions of dollars every year are wasted in the USA through the hiring of contractors.

He thinks that it «wastes billions of our tax dollars each year.»

A hundred - plus years ago, wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy — and now, after hundreds of billions of wasted tax and consumer dollars, we find that (surprise!)

And I look to Germany etc to tell me that S&W are a farce and a stupid waste of billions of our dollars every year, just to wreck our energy grid.

Like all of Obama's green expenditures (billions of dollars over past three years) this was another failure that reveals why governments should not be wasting tax - payer dollars subsidizing Al Gore and wealthy consumers.

Additionally, the value of food loss and waste is estimated at $ 161.6 billion dollars in the United States, meaning the average consumer spends $ 370 per year on food they never eat.

The main point of the discussion was Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada that took years and billions of dollars to research and build, that is a completely safe location to store commercial nuclear waste, but which sits empty for political reasons.