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Republican's Vote Against Sandy Relief Doesn't Square With Past Request

Salon | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics

A Republican congressman who voted against federal funding for Hurricane Sandy relief last week asked the federal government for millions in funding f...

Lynne Peeples

Lead Poisoning Prevention Funds Slashed, Costly Consequences For Children's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.16.2012 | Green

When Devon Owens checked his then 2-year-old daughter, Dallas, into the hospital last year, he wasn't sure what to expect. He just knew that routine m...

Texas Looks To Fund Health Program Despite Possible Setbacks

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.09.2012 | Politics

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday directed state officials to begin looking for money to keep the Medicaid Women's Health ...

Pa. Homeless Charity Allegedly Splurges Funding Dollars On Vacations, Clothes, Shows

Posted 02.07.2012 | Impact

Executives at a Philadelphia charity who were supposed to provide shelter for the homeless, allegedly squandered funds on vacations, shoes and shows i...

School District Participated In 'Blatant Misuse' Of Nearly $1 Million Tax Dollars

Posted 01.16.2012 | Home

The York City School District has misspent nearly $1 million in federal taxpayer money, according to the Pennsylvania auditor general. In what stat...

You Can Take It With You: Dead Federal Retirees Paid Millions Annually, Report Finds

Washington Post | By Ed O’Keefe | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics

The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year -- including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report....

Nikki Haley Turning Down Millions In Federal Funds, In Opposition To Obama Health Care Law

The State | By Gina Smith | Posted 11.01.2011 | Politics

Gov. Nikki Haley said she will let federal deadlines slip by and not accept millions in federal funds to help South Carolina set up its own health ins...

Kirsten Gillibrand Blasts Eric Cantor Over Disaster Relief

YNN | By Web Staff | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

Senator Gillibrand said, "I think it's irresponsible, and I think he lacked judgement, and I think he should come and begin to meet with the homes, th...

FEMA Chief Responds To Concerns About Dwindling Disaster Aid

AP | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The head of the federal disaster assistance agency says recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irene will proceed regardless of a dwi...

David Ramirez

Census Undercount Could Cost NYC Hispanics Millions

HuffingtonPost.com | David Ramirez | Posted 10.17.2011 | Latino Voices

NEW YORK - New York City could receive less federal funding than expected because of what the state considers to be a miscount of its Latino populatio...

Jennifer Bendery

Congress Forces Partial Shutdown Of FAA, Leaves Thousands Without Pay

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.21.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of Federal Aviation Administration employees will stop getting paid as of midnight on Friday after Congress left town without ...

Abortion Showdown Could Cost Indiana $4.3 Billion

AP | TOM LoBIANCO | Posted 08.05.2011 | Politics

INDIANAPOLIS — A looming showdown over Indiana's new law that cuts funding for the Planned Parenthood organization may test how far Republican-l...

NPR, the Rest of the Federal Budget & a Large Hairy Dog

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Sally Kohn

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NPR Scandal Reversal: The Raw Footage Shows Something Else

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Russ Baker

Why is the truth about the latest anti-NPR video not in the mainstream media -- and not on NPR? Why do we have to count on newer news sites -- conservative, liberal , or neither-- to learn this crucial information?

NPR's Inevitable Conflict

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Jeff Jarvis

The stations' interests and NPR's interests are no longer aligned. That is the elephant in the studio. Schiller tried to improve the stations' lot, but in the end, the stations will fear a stronger NPR.

Planned Parenthood To Rally In Lower Manhattan Saturday

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/134654/planned-parenthood-to-rally-in-lower-manhattan | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

On the heels of a vote last week in the House of Representatives that sought to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, elected officials, celebri...

Get The Federal Government Out Of Education? That Wasn't The Founding Fathers' Vision

Jack Jennings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Jack Jennings

Increasingly conservatives are raising the question: What -- if any -- should be the federal role in education?

The Danger of Cutting Federal Science Funding

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Steven Cohen

Over the past two decades, I fear that we have reached a tipping point, where our top scientists are spending a larger and larger portion of their time raising funds and less and less time devoted to science.

Laura Bassett

Federal Government Cuts Off Recession Relief Money To States

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Despite soaring unemployment and the 19 million Americans currently living in "deep poverty," federal funds for the Temporary Assistance For Needy Fam...

Mayor Bloomberg FUMING

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is fuming that the New York Police Department didn't get a cut of federal money being given out to h...

CTA Plans To Add New South Side Red Line Stops

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

For years, Chicagoans have been vocal about their desire for expanded CTA service--and Red Line users on the South Side just might get it soon enough....

AG Abbott's Constitutional Miss on Federal Education Dollars

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Texas officials violated the spirit and the letter of the Texas Constitution by thwarting the purpose of the money requested by Governor Perry in his July 2009 application and received by Texas.

Dan Maes Would Refuse All Federal Cash As Governor

The Colorado Independent | Scot Kersgaard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

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Education Department Proposes To End Federal Funding To For-Profit Colleges Whose Students Can't Get Jobs Or Repay Their Loans

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations Friday that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of the...

School Libraries AXED: Librarian Layoffs As Schools Cope With Budget Crises

AP | DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Students who wished their school librarians a nice summer on the last day of school may be surprised this fall when they're no...