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Carl Levin: “Then how do you say there is great proven value to the program when you have no way of assessing how many people were…”

On the recordApril 24, 2007
Then how do you say there is great proven value to the program when you have no way of assessing how many people were motivated by the program to do something and may have done it the same way anyway?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan
Source
congress.gov
Apr 24, 2007

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the assessment of the program's value without empirical data.

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