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Records show California lawmakers increased staff pay

Despite a huge budget deficit, an Associated Press review of legislative pay records showed that many California lawmakers had given pay raises to their staff in the first half of […]
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Health care lobbyists number six per lawmaker

Jonathan D. Salant and Lizzie O’Leary of Bloomberg.com report that there are approximately 3,300 lobbyists currently working on the issue of health care. "That’s six lobbyists for each of the […]
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Rigged Privilege series

A three-part investigation by the East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.) looked at Arizona's Private School Tuition Tax Credits program.  "The tuition tax credits law was supposed to revolutionize school choice […]
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Many bad bridges not receiving stimulus funds

"Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in […]
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Some rape victims failed by Violence Against Women Act

A report co-published by ProPublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund found that "15 years after Congress passed a law to ensure that rape victims would never see a bill, […]
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Projects get stimulus funds despite limited economic impact

A report by Michelle Breidenbach of The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) shows that in many cases stimulus funds funneled through the National Institutes of Health are going towards previously unfunded proposals […]
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Nurse drug prevention program loosely monitored

In their continuing investigation into failed oversight of California's nursing board, ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times found problems within the state's drug diversion program. Diversion is intended to help […]
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Many Pentagon contractors go unnamed

"The Pentagon’s unnamed contractors placed 14th on the Defense Department’s ranking of top contractors for 2008, according to an Aerospace Daily analysis of an independent national database of government contracting […]
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Questions remain about Wisconsin's proposed high-speed train

An investigation by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students found gaps in one of the state’s biggest proposed stimulus projects: a half-a-billion-dollar high-speed passenger […]
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Health care czar profited from companies under investigation

Nancy Ann DeParle, who heads the White House Office on Health Reform, made more than $6.6 million since 2001 serving as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal […]
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