To reduce its overall costs Cass County has instituted a skill enhance

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To reduce its overall costs Cass County has instituted a skill enhancement program in which real world skills will be taught to past felons and recently released convicts. According to historical research, people who go through such a program are not likely to revert to crime; Therefore, the county expects a reduction in the money spent in fighting crime, thereby reducing its overall costs.

Which of the following along with the information above would help further the belief that instituting the skill enhancement program is expected to reduce overall costs of cash county?

A. Many currently unemployed people who draw on benefits paid by the county are also likely to join these programs and get well-paying jobs post their graduation.
B. The overall costs to fight crime are higher for crime involving loss of life than it is for other crime such as thefts. 
C. The overall tax revenue of the county is likely to increase as more and more people join the workforce.
D. When compared to other alternatives to reduce crime skill enhancement programs have had considerably more success keeping people from reverting back to criminal activities.
E. The skill enhancement program will be financed by the special low interest fund that would allow Cass County to deploy this program without diverting funds away from any existing crime prevention program.

prakharpandeylaw · Answer

Can you please explain for how option A is correct and option E is not ? the conclusion is on reducing crime and consequently, costs for fighting crime. answer choice A might be a benefit for the program but has no causal link to the specific conclusion at hand

divyadna · Answer

Option E talks only about how finances will be managed for the skill enhancement programme and doesn't mention if there will be any good outcomes like well paying jobs which will in turn deter people who attend the programme from reverting to crime.

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prakharpandeylaw · Answer

divyadna  , besides the discussion on option A v Option E, can you please explain how option A links back to the original conclusion -"Therefore, the county expects a reduction in the money spent in fighting crime, thereby reducing its overall costs."

the conclusion revolves around reduction in finances, what if the proposed plan increases jobs for the unemployed but not for the convicts? then we are back to square one. its just external information which is subjective and also does not appear to have any linkage to the conclusion.

divyadna · Answer

Conclusion:Therefore, the county expects a reduction in the money spent in fighting crime, thereby reducing its overall costs.

If you look at the question stem, it asks that which option strengthens the belief that county will reduce its cost. So even if released convicts do not get employment post programme, there is a cohort of unemployed people who will be employed in well paying jobs post skill enhancement programme and eventually lead to a reduction in cost to the county.

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pintukr · Answer

Hello  KarishmaB  ,  AndrewN

Request if you guide me on this CR question..

D. When compared to other alternatives to reduce crime skill enhancement programs have had considerably more success keeping people from reverting back to criminal activities.

The conclusion highlights that the reduction in the money spent in fighting crime , further leading to reduction in overall costs, will occur due to the program's effectiveness in ensuring that the past felons will not likely to revert to crime.

So,

if the crime skill enhancement programs have had considerably more success keeping people (refer , past felons) from reverting back to criminal activities, it significantly strengthens the logical basis of the argument --------------------> hence will suitably assist to further the belief that 'instituting the skill enhancement program is expected to reduce overall costs of Cass County'

That's exactly what (D) says.

IMO , (D) should be the correct answer

KarishmaB · Answer

A couple of things here:

We are already given that the program is effective: 
 According to historical research, people who go through such a program are not likely to revert to crime;
 
Also, look at (D) again:
 D. When compared to other alternatives to reduce crime skill enhancement programs have had considerably more success keeping people from reverting back to criminal activities.

It says this program is more effective than other alternatives. But what if other alternatives and very little effective and this program is a bit more effective than them? It doesn't mean this program is very effective. 
Also, comparison with other programs is out of scope for us. We have to strengthen that this program will reduce overall costs. Even if another program could reduce overall cost more than this program, it would still not be relevant. Any other program is out of scope for us. The point is whether this program reduces overall costs for us or not.

Option (A) tells us another way in which this program will reduce cost for us. So then it does become more likely that with this program our overall cost will reduce.

tusharpokhra267 · Answer

GMATNinja

Can you please explain this. 
I marked D because reduction in the crimes will eventually lead to the reduction in costs.

Aryan19852 · Answer

How come A is the right answer the conclusion is 'Therefore, the county expects a reduction in the money spent in fighting crime, thereby reducing its overall costs.' why should we assume unemployed people will turn into criminals if not given skill program, cost would increase only if criminal activity is increasing I think A goes out of scope

giovanni.ch92 · Answer

Hi everyone. Now I think answer A is correct as we are trying to reduce costs, and letter A says "many unemployed who DRAW on benefits from the county.."
If people who were receiving "money" from the county, don't receive them anymore cause they have jobs, that will result in less costs for the county.
Thats my guess..

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