"Penny wise is often pound foolish."
- French Proverb
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/01/135841052/sheriffs-program-teaches-prisoners-to-get-out-of-jail
“His Education-Based Incarceration initiative focuses on promoting intellectual growth in prisoners, he tells Guy Raz, host of Weekends On All Things Considered. Baca wants inmates to use jail time to study for success once their sentence is up.
Menial jobs aren't the best way for inmates to spend their time in prison, Baca says, because "that's not what gets you a job outside the jail." What does is reliability, he says, and proving "you're smart enough to be trained in a new job."
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Main Entry:
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wasteful
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Part of Speech:
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adjective
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Definition:
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not economical
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Synonyms:
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careless, cavalier, destructive, dissipative, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, incontinent, lavish, liberal, overdone, overgenerous, pound-foolish , prodigal, profligate, profuse, reckless, ruinous, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, uneconomical, unthrifty, wanton, wild
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Antonyms:
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economical, thrifty, unwasteful
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