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In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a federal grant to a California university to develop a video game to teach evolution.
Several federal employees appear on the government payroll twice or three times claiming work for multiple agencies.
Baltimore City Public Schools spent nearly five-eights of a million dollars on lavish staff appreciation events, despite poor performance.
In 2011, the Milwaukee Public Museum used a federal grant to make 3-D renderings of Egyptian mummies, in a display available for five months.
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.
