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Michigan is getting $1.5 billion from the federal treasury for high-speed Internet, but has been sharing it with private entertainment venues.
Social Security will be unsustainable because successive generations are smaller than the ones they are supporting.
The Environmental Protection Agency spent $11 million on a key database that lacks proper security, allowing former staff to access it.
The green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act would cost too much and not yield the energy they promise.
The site USASpending.gov is supposed to be the official monitor of federal spending - but 49 agencies won't report to it.
Iowa and Minnesota present a controlled experiment in tax cutting, with Iowa as the experimental side. Results are overwhelmingly positive.
In three separate instances (one civil disorder and two upset elections), the masses are in revolt against the neoliberal global order.
In 1982, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) highlighted a federal program to teach teens to make shirts - that made not one shirt.
America's electric grid is vulnerable to cyberattack - and is in fact a frequent target. Measures to harden it are now urgent.
The Hudson River Tunnel (and renovation of the North Tunnel) received another $3.8 billion award, and it still won't be enough.
