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U.S. contracts fund Taliban-affiliated insurgents

Aram Roston of The Nation reports hundreds of millions of American tax dollars are going directly to Taliban-affiliated insurgents in Afghanistan. According to the article, US military officials in Kabul […]
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Stimulus job reports riddled with errors, inflated numbers

“A stimulus job report that says more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin is rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers based more on satisfying federal […]
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Felon awarded $1 million to supply AIDS/HIV services

In the third part of "Wasting Away," an investigation of D.C.'s AIDS program,The Washington Post found the city awarded a $1 million AIDS contract to a woman who had just […]
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Gambling with state pension plan may cost state jobs, services

Mackenzie Ryan of the Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.) recently investigated a new and controversial financial strategy in Oregon that attempts to lower a public agency's pension system. The arbitrage strategy […]
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Jobs linked to aircraft production complicate attempted budget cuts

The Boeing C-17 is a $250 million aircraft used by the military to transport troops and supplies. Despite the Pentagon asserting it has plenty of C-17s in its fleet, Congress […]
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Clean energy stimulus funds ending up overseas

The latest report from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University shows that the majority of clean-energy grants paid out from stimulus funds have gone to overseas companies. "Of […]
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Nonprofit a source of ready money for city officials

A Baltimore Sun investigation reveals that a little-known private nonprofit group formed to primarily benefit city programs for the underprivileged is a source of money-on-demand for city government officials with […]
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Rulings by California's worker safety appeals board questioned

A Los Angeles Times investigation found that the Cal-OSHA Appeals Board "has repeatedly reduced or dismissed penalties levied by Cal-OSHA over the last few years, even in situations in which […]
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Questionable individuals retain U.S. pilots licenses

Analysis of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database made available to ABCNews.com showed that "a notorious drug kingpin, a convicted arms trafficker and several other individuals linked to aviation-connected crimes […]
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Wasting Away series

In a city ravaged by the highest rate of AIDS case in the nation, the D.C. Health Department paid millions to nonprofit groups that delivered substandard services or failed to […]
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