government waste

Oregon joins list of states with failed Obamacare exchanges by Nate

Oregon joins list of states with failed Obamacare exchanges

Nate April 25, 2014
Your tax dollars at work: Feds drop $700K on a climate change musical by LU Staff

Your tax dollars at work: Feds drop $700K on a climate change musical

LU Staff March 29, 2014
Ka-ching! First lady heads to China on taxpayers’ dime with daughters and mom in tow by LU Staff

Ka-ching! First lady heads to China on taxpayers’ dime with daughters and mom in tow

LU Staff March 18, 2014
Food stamps just got a whole lot sexier for Louisianans, who can use them for ‘adult purchases’ by Howard Portnoy

Food stamps just got a whole lot sexier for Louisianans, who can use them for ‘adult purchases’

Howard Portnoy March 16, 2014
Amtrak writers residency program: Authors travel free, taxpayers foot the bill by Howard Portnoy

Amtrak writers residency program: Authors travel free, taxpayers foot the bill

Howard Portnoy February 25, 2014
Feds spend $356K on ‘simulation facility’ to study risky cycling and pedestrian behavior by LU Staff

Feds spend $356K on ‘simulation facility’ to study risky cycling and pedestrian behavior

LU Staff February 23, 2014
Let’s stop paying Social Security benefits to the dead by LU Staff

Let’s stop paying Social Security benefits to the dead

LU Staff January 22, 2014
Your tax dollars at work: Fed shells out $175 million for penis pumps by Howard Portnoy

Your tax dollars at work: Fed shells out $175 million for penis pumps

Howard Portnoy January 13, 2014
Report: Fed agencies trim millions in junkets by Kenric Ward

Report: Fed agencies trim millions in junkets

Kenric Ward January 7, 2014
Gov’t ‘waste’ takes on new definition, as feds pay to collect human urine by LU Staff

Gov’t ‘waste’ takes on new definition, as feds pay to collect human urine

LU Staff December 17, 2013
Low information voter alert: Obama OKs unlimited food stamps during Thanksgiving by T. Kevin Whiteman

Low information voter alert: Obama OKs unlimited food stamps during Thanksgiving

T. Kevin Whiteman November 23, 2013
Inspector general’s report: IRS refunded $4 billion to identity thieves last year by LU Staff

Inspector general’s report: IRS refunded $4 billion to identity thieves last year

LU Staff November 13, 2013
Cost of Obamacare website translates to 1 million man hours @$200 by Howard Portnoy

Cost of Obamacare website translates to 1 million man hours @$200

Howard Portnoy October 23, 2013
Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update) by Howard Portnoy

Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update)

Howard Portnoy October 17, 2013
Post Office to destroy ‘unsafe’ stamps by T. Kevin Whiteman

Post Office to destroy ‘unsafe’ stamps

T. Kevin Whiteman October 11, 2013
Detroit taking bids on new $140M light rail project to be built on federal taxpayers’ dime by LU Staff

Detroit taking bids on new $140M light rail project to be built on federal taxpayers’ dime

LU Staff August 27, 2013
Obama’s $5-a-year cell phone tax to fund high-speed internet in schools by Howard Portnoy

Obama’s $5-a-year cell phone tax to fund high-speed internet in schools

Howard Portnoy August 15, 2013
CA prison inmates can move to nicer digs … for $155 a night by Howard Portnoy

CA prison inmates can move to nicer digs … for $155 a night

Howard Portnoy August 1, 2013
Millions in U.S. farm subsidies go to dead farmers by Howard Portnoy

Millions in U.S. farm subsidies go to dead farmers

Howard Portnoy August 1, 2013
'No Labels’ group resolves to eliminate government waste in bipartisan way by Myra Kahn Adams

'No Labels’ group resolves to eliminate government waste in bipartisan way

Myra Kahn Adams July 19, 2013
Two House Dems propose a new national park — on the moon by Howard Portnoy

Two House Dems propose a new national park — on the moon

Howard Portnoy July 9, 2013
A graphic look at the federal government's MAF (money unaccounted for) by LU Staff

A graphic look at the federal government's MAF (money unaccounted for)

LU Staff June 25, 2013
Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims by Howard Portnoy

Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims

Howard Portnoy June 19, 2013
Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant by Howard Portnoy

Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant

Howard Portnoy May 19, 2013
The federal gov’t spent $400K developing high-tech tighty whities! (and they're not done) by Jeff Dunetz

The federal gov’t spent $400K developing high-tech tighty whities! (and they're not done)

Jeff Dunetz May 7, 2013
Taxpayers drop $152,500 on 'voice therapy' for transsexuals by T. Kevin Whiteman

Taxpayers drop $152,500 on 'voice therapy' for transsexuals

T. Kevin Whiteman April 24, 2013
$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients by Howard Portnoy

$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients

Howard Portnoy April 3, 2013
Taxpayers spring for Biden's third vacation in past three months by T. Kevin Whiteman

Taxpayers spring for Biden's third vacation in past three months

T. Kevin Whiteman March 29, 2013
Biden has been flying home to Delaware on weekends on taxpayer’s dime by Howard Portnoy

Biden has been flying home to Delaware on weekends on taxpayer’s dime

Howard Portnoy March 24, 2013
Your tax dollars at work: $384,949 to study duck 'ding-dongs' by Jeff Dunetz

Your tax dollars at work: $384,949 to study duck 'ding-dongs'

Jeff Dunetz March 22, 2013
Outrage: Prison inmates collect unemployment benefits by Howard Portnoy

Outrage: Prison inmates collect unemployment benefits

Howard Portnoy February 18, 2013
41% of ‘Obama phone’ recipients can’t prove eligibility by Howard Portnoy

41% of ‘Obama phone’ recipients can’t prove eligibility

Howard Portnoy February 12, 2013
Massachusetts can’t locate 19,000 of its welfare recipients by Howard Portnoy

Massachusetts can’t locate 19,000 of its welfare recipients

Howard Portnoy January 6, 2013
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