The administration’s allocation of nearly one-fifth of the national budget to pork barrel projects over the past three years, as cited by a watchdog, is a blatant disregard of the pressing needs of ...

Brother, can you spare a dime? How about $36 trillion to pay off the national debt? Yes, that’s the number released by the ...

The Michigan Legislature and governor's exorbitant use of budget earmarks in recent years has been clouded by controversy — ...

For-profit businesses could be elbowed out of the Michigan Legislature's annual earmarks bonanza in the multibillion-dollar ...

Pork-barrel politics affect the economy in several ways. Pork-barrel spending occurs when the government earmarks funds to be spent in a specific region of the country, usually as a favor to an ...

EXCLUSIVE: Bob Lyddon believes the Chancellor's strategy will be a "re-run" of Gordon Brown's Private Finance Initiative, ...

The last time Connecticut's revenues boomed, the state spent far more than it saved. Some conservatives fear Democrats will ...

TV news, I heard about President Trump signing the “stimulus” bill. His desire for $2,000 per American was reported, but much of what the TV news media had to say about him ...

Topline: The Department of Education has been in the headlines lately as some critics call it a waste of federal funds amid ...

Lawmakers spent billions in one-time surplus dollars supporting ongoing state programs and backing pork-barrel projects in ... with a more stringent cap on spending, complemented by a new limit ...

Bob Lyddon also believes the Chancellor is planning to plough cash into Labour seats in a classic example of what he called “pork barrel politics”. Mr Lyddon, the founder of international ...