Federal stimulus plan’s spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on unemployment, research finds; “Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn’t matter,” the analysis showed as “local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation”
“It beats being at work!” Federal Aviation Administration spent $5 million to send 3, 600 managers to a conference in Atlanta that some say was little more than an excuse to throw a three-week-long party
Congress spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to send politicians and staff on a junket to the global warming summit that failed to reach a climate agreement
“Stealth” company whose address appears to be an empty office to receive $9.2 million federal grant
The Postal Service’s top marketing executive directed more than $1.3 million in sole-source contracts to former business associates; As a result, some postal employees are sitting idle because the consultants are doing what previously were their jobs
Local builders are being excluded from Air Force housing project in Montana
Nearly three years after Congress approved new ethics rules, no member of Congress has been punished for wrongdoing
The U.S. Agency for International Development pays hundreds of millions of dollars to the United Nations Office for Project Services for projects in Afghanistan that have been plagued with fraud, mismanagement and lack of internal financial controls
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