Public retirement funds paid out $30.6 million to a relative handful of pensions, an unsustainable state of affairs.
Mississippi spent nearly a million dollars on nonprofits who said they were fighting HIV but instead staged several DEI events.
The managers of the Texas Teacher Retirement System are helping themselves to bonuses in the millions while doing a very poor job.
The WIC (Women, Infants and Children) supplemental nutrition program has no independent funding and will shut down with the government.
In 2011 the Department of Agriculture awarded grants to bed-and-breakfast inns in New York so they could buy locally grown produce.
The State of Oregon spent $2.14 billion in a single year, but procurement staff have no idea how much of that money they wasted.
8.752 employees of government at all levels actually outearn the President of the United States in base salary alone.
The State of Washington has spent $5 billion on homelessness programs over 12 years and has little or nothing to show for it.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is paying minority-owned businesses ten percent more than they pay others for the same jobs.
In 2011, USAID spent millions of dollars buying energy-efficient irrigation pumps for farmers in Pakistan, farmers who didn't even want them.