Agriculture
- Now California Fruit & Vegetable Growers Eye Federal Subsidies
- What Happened When New Zealand Ended Farm Subsidies
- Proposed Cash To Farmers Isn't Peanuts
- Gargantuan Farm Bill Distorts Markets
- Farming Sector May Be Most Welfare-Dependent Industry
- USDA Recommends Cutting Farm Subsidies
- Farming For Government Checks
- The Gravy Train That Is Farm Welfare
- Milk Compact Could Spawn Other Cartels
- Cartels Milk The Nation
- Restoration Plan Saves Business, Not The Everglades
- The Damage Caused By Sugar Subsidies
- Fewer Poor Going Hungry
- A Costly Abundance Of Sugar
- Sweet Deal For Sugar Growers, Raw Deal For Consumers
- The Crop Insurance Fiasco
- Rural Development Funds Being Channeled Into Stocks
- Farm Subsidies Went To Rich Farmers In Iowa
- Farm Subsidies Fall In Canada
- Everglades Policy Sweetened Liberally
- Farms And Forests Give Way To Development
- Millions Being Stolen From Federal Day Care Programs
- Farm Consolidation: Boon Or Bane?
- Who Is Down On The Hobby Farm?
- Resurrecting Farm Subsidies And Regulations
- Farm Income Under "Freedom To Farm"
- Nonsensical Farm Subsidies
- Bigger Farms, Bigger Subsidies
- Agricultural Budget Can Be Cut
- Is Another Farm Bailout Coming in 1999?
- Hog Farmers About To Take On Government Board
- Reform For The Government's Milk Marketing Program?
- How One Agriculture Subsidy Skews Markets
- Hemp Could Save Farmers -- But It's Illegal
- Farm Blues
- Officials Panic As Food Stamp Use Drops
- Agricultural Policy in Tatters
- Are Milk, Cotton Boards On Verge Of Scandal?
- Freer Farm Policies In Jeopardy
- Government Still Handing Out Money To Farmers
- Asian Turmoil Takes Toll On U.S. Farmers
- Marketing Agreements
- Politicians Reconsidering Agricultural Subsidies
- Agricultural Reforms A Success
- Cost Of Subsidies: Cost To Consumers / Taxpayers
- Cost Of Subsidies: Missed Reform Opportunities
- Cost Of Subsidies: Effects On Pollution
- Freedom To Farm Act
- Farmers Reveling In New Freedom
- Ethanol Subsidies
- Grain Subsidies
- Sugar Subsidies
- Milk Subsidies
- Peanut Subsidies
- Cotton Subsidies
- Effects Of NAFTA & GATT
- Effects Of Regulation On Ability To Compete
- Scandals In The Farm Loan Program
- USDA Lead Farmers To Destruction
AmeriCorps
- How The Army Corps Of Engineers Assumes Priority Over Terrorism
- Time To Do Away With Americorps
- Clinton "Voulenteers" For Disaster
- AmeriCorps Program's Success Is Questioned
Amtrak
- Moving Closer To Amtrak Privatization
- Amtrak Accounting Approved
- Amtrak Still In The Hole
- Amtrak Reform Panel Off To Shaky Start
- Amtrak Spending
- Bartlett: Case Against Amtrak
- Amtrak Off The Rails
- The Rail Less Traveled
- Amtrak Ghost Train Rolls On
Army Corps Of Engineers
- Politics, Not Economics, Behind Corps Studies
- Corps Maneuvers For 50 Percent Budget Increase
- How The Corps Of Engineers Manipulated The Data
- Costly River Projects, But No Traffic
- Shifting Sands Thwart Beach Restoration
- Subsidies For Ole' Man River
Arts & Humanities
- Arts Funding (Pork) Pie Sliced Evenly
- Opinion: Federal Arts Funding Lacks Rationale
- What If Federal Arts Funding Disappeared?
- National Endowment Isn't The WPA
Commerce
- Tale Of A Troubled Computer
- Government Agency May Be Closed
- Heritage Backgrounder: Commerce Dept. Mission Creep And Waste (SUMMARY)
- Minimal Cuts In Corporate Welfare
- Corporations Hitting Up Taxpayers
- Cutting Business Subsidies
Corporate Subsidies
- What Big Steel Wants From Washington
- Airline Bailouts Could Weaken Stronger Carriers
- Ethanol: Is It About Energy And The Environment, Or Farm Income?
- Ethanol Is A Campaign Crop, Say Critics
- U.S. Steelmakers Get Billions In Government Subsidies
- Time To End Ethanol Subsidies
- Panel Wants Spending Tripled To Promote Energy Technology Abroad
- Corporate Welfare Still Growing
- OPIC Stands Privatization On Its Head
- Corporate Welfare Alive And Well
- Market Access Program Gives Jerky Corporate Welfare
- Silver Lining In Sanctions Against India
- Cato Briefing Paper: End Subsidies, Say Silicon Valley Execs
- Heritage: International Assistance Bill Equals Unreformed Aid
- Hang Out At The Tax-Subsidized Mall
- The Corporate Welfare Prize Goes To Ethanol
- Ex-IM Bank Just Corporate Welfare
- Democrats Propose Corporate Welfare Cuts
- One More Subsidy That Won't Go Away
- Congress Dishes Out The Corporate Pork
- Bartlett: High Definition TV A Failure
- OPIC Is Corporate Welfare
- Heritage Foundation: Discontinue OPIC
Defense
- Pork For The Pentagon
- Overspending At The Pentagon
- Defense Spending Too High
- Defense Accounting Not Even Up To "Mom And Pop Store" Standards
- Defense Spending Decreases
- Pentagon's Military Strategy Questioned
- Outsourcing More Defense Work?
- Navy Floats Fuel Saving Idea
Energy
- Farm Lobby Squeezes Goodies Into Energy Bill
- Other Countries Recycle Nuclear "Waste" to Produce Electricity
- Synfuel Producers Hit Paydirt!
- Promising Solutions To Waste Management
- Number Of Poor Seeking Energy Assistance Jumps
- Yucca Mountain -- Mega-Waste?
- Federal Spending And The Budget
- A Looming Shortage Of Nuclear Engineers?
- Economics Of Nuclear Power
- What Price Energy Efficiency?
- Both Oil Reserves And Demand Have Increased
- Significant Differences in Candidates' Energy Plans
- Energy Department's Nuclear-Safety Record Called "Abominable"
- The Mounting Problem Of Nuclear Waste
- Who Pays For Medical Testing At Hanford?
- What Need For The Energy Department?
- No Focused Mission at The Energy Department
- Nuclear Waste Report A Waste?
- Dinosaur Dams
- Energy Department Mismanagement
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Subsidies Encourage Building Castles On Sand
- Government Encourages Risky Behavior by Insuring Against Disasters
- States Misspent $500 Million In Federal Emergency Aid
- Marketing Disaster Relief
- Disaster Insurance For Government?
- Defining Disaster At FEMA
- Government's Hurricanes Forecasting Has Improved
- Disaster Agency Shovels Money Freely
Flood Insurance
- The High Costs Of Shoreline Protection
- National Wildlife Federation Study: Flood Insurance Pays Off Repeatedly (SUMMARY)
- Federal Disaster Relief Policy A Disaster
- Tale Of Two Flooded Cities
Foreign Aid
- Foreign Aid Must Be
Results Oriented
- Doubts
About "Tiered Pricing" Of AIDS Drugs In Africa
- Putting A Price Tag On Mideast Peace
- U.S. Development Aid Shrinks
- Money For Colombian Drug War Not All It Seems
- Heritage Study: U.S. Aids Its Foreign Policy Opponents (SUMMARY)
- The Sorry Record Of Foreign Aid Funds
- Has Foreign Aid Been Israel's Crutch?
- Subsidizing International Crisis
Head Start
- Heritage Backgrounder: Effectiveness of Head Start Unproven
Health Programs
- Doctor Training Subsidies Vary Widely
- Who Needs A Surgeon General?
- AIDS Declines, Spending Increases
- The Public Health Service
- Funding For V.A. Hospitals Increases, As Need Declines
- Critics Question Vaccines For Children Program
Highways & Mass Transit
- Opinion: Only Privatization Can Save Passenger Rail
- Panel To Propose Railroad Privatization
- Searching For A Transportation Policy In California
- Attack Effects Transportation: Travelers Switch To Amtrak
- Federal Highway Funds
- Toll Roads Without the Booths
- Giving "Road Pricing" A Chance
- States Shun Mass Transit Projects
- Railroads In Search Of Public Funding
- Commuters Switching To Trains As Gas Prices Rise
- Major Cost Overruns On Nation's Biggest Public Works Project
- Buses are an Alternative to Light Rail
- New Commuter Rails Are Costly And Ineffective
- Opening "HOV" Lanes To Single-Occupant Vehicles
- Rail Fails To Reduce Congestion
- As Gas Prices Fall, Revenues Rise
- State Road Maintenance (SUMMARY)
- States May Use Tolls To Rebuild Interstates
- Reason Study: Public Transit Is A Bad Investment
- Highway Bill Won't Stimulate Growth
- Highway Bill's Private Benefits
- Cato Study: Transit Pork Gone Hog Wild
- What Happened To Highway Construction?
- Highway Robberies
- Roads Vs. Mass Transit
- Improving Mass Transit
- Misspent Highway Taxes
- Devolving Transportation To The States
- Dedicated Find Raises Spending
Home Loan Programs
- Fannie And Freddie Debt Make Some Analysts Queasy
-
What Do Fannie And Freddie Need: Regulation Or Competition?
- Minority Homeownership Rates Climbed In The 1990s
- Study Says Affordable Housing Shortage Is Growing
- Fannie And Freddie Attracting More Criticism
- Home Loans To Minorities Jumped Last Year
- Debt Dangers Lurk In Two Government Sponsored Enterprises
- HUD About To Get Tough With Fannie Mae?
- What Justification For Fannie And Freddie?
- Sky-High Default Rates At Federally Funded Bank
- Housing In America
- Few Home Loans For Indians Living On Tribal Reservations
- Federal Home Loan Banks Subsidize Commercial Banks
- Subsidizing Wealthy Home Buyers
- Get A Modest Mansion From The Feds
Internal Revenue Service
- The Collected Follies Of Washington
- "S" Is For Service -- As In "I.R.S."
- Some Politicians Are Nonchalant About Tax Payments
- Measuring Change By "Inchstones" At The IRS
- IRS Legal Actions To Collect Taxes Plummet
- "Innocent Spouse" Cases Load IRS Dockets
- A Nicer I.R.S. Faces Challenge Of Collecting Taxes
- Satisfying The IRS In 168 Easy Payments
- IRS Not Clamping Down On Tax-Expatriates
- IRS Abuses Hidden By Shoddy Record Keeping
- IRS Agents Claim To Fear Collection Activities
- "Dramatic Decline In IRS Audits
- Shifting Personnel At The IRS
- What The New IRS Law Does
- Sins Of The IRS
- GAO Says No Go At IRS
Legal Services Corporation
- Legal Services Corp. Engaged In Fraud
- Legal Services Corp. Inflating Cases
- Legal Services In Recruits Clients Abroad
- Despite Abuses, Legal Services Survives
- Supreme Court Puts Crimp In Legal-Aid Funds (IOLTA)
- Legal Services Corp. Sails On
- Legal Services Corporation Rescued
- Legal Aid For The Poor
- Lots Of Legal Aid Available
National Forests
- Fighting Forest Fires Costly
- Cut Losses: Get Rid Of The Forest Service
- Roads And People Are A Problem
- Controversy Over Forest Service Roads
- Banning Roads Would Endanger Forests
- Splitting Revenues From Logging National Forests
- The Forest Service's Painful Market Distortion
- Forest Service Reportedly In Shambles
National Parks
- Government Mismanages National Park
- Higher User Fees Generate Cash At National Parks
- The National Park Service's Poor Safety Record
- Letting Parks Keep Fees A Success
- New National Parks Policy
- National Park Concessionaires To Pay More
Other Spending Programs
- Funds Aimed At Poor Communities Are Diverted To Wealthier Ones
- Feds Challenge Tennessee Valley Authority On Accounting
- Patent Office Strains Jeopardize Intellectual Property
- Nontax Debt Owed Government Increases
- Federal Bricks, Mortar --- And Marble --- Cost Money
- Federal Spending On Olympic Games
- Safety Board At The "Breaking Point"
- Federalizing Child Day Care
- Half Of NSF Grant Money Wasted
- Space Station Woes
- Federal Water Projects Go Against The Flow
- Too Many VA Hospitals
- Fish & Wildlife Service "Slush Fund" Wasted Millions
- Richest U.S. Areas Receive Development Block Grants
- Federal Property -- And Rentals
- Privatizing Unemployment Insurance
- Oops! Government Saves Some Money
- Government Subsidizes Luxury Cruise Lines
- Is Technology Making The Postal Service Irrelevant
- FDIC Just Keeps Growing As Bank Failures Plummet
- Problems With Washington D.C.
- Still Plenty Of Discretionary Fat In The Budget
Public Housing
- Case Study In An Urban Revival Failure
- "Hope" Housing: Luxury Homes And Perverse Incentives
- HUD: The Troubled Federal Housing Agency
- Subsidized Housing For Public Employees?
- Untested New Housing Policy Draws Skeptics
- Failed Public Housing Leads To New $1.5 Billion Chicago Project
- HUD's "Community Builders" Cost Taxpayers Millions
- HUD: "Poster Child Of Failed Government"
- What Course For Public Housing?
- Repeating Failure in Public Housing
- Officials Call Housing Integration Plan Unworkable
- Bill Would Open Public Housing To More Workers
- Chicago Will Destroy Nation's Largest Public Housing Project
- Boston Testing New Public Housing Eviction Rule
- Cato Study: Housing And Urban Development (HUD) Should Go
- Rethinking Housing Policy
- Dealing With Public Housing Failures
- Cleaning Up The Public Housing Mess
- Subsidized Housing Undercuts Working Poor
- HUD's Section 8 Taxpayer Rip-off?
- HUD And Indian Housing
Public Broadcasting
- Advertizing On PBS
- Public TV Donations Rise
- Cato Study: Cut Public Radio Loose
Science Research
- Why Shouldn't Private Sector Leand In Stem Cell Research
- Success Of Privately Funded Arctic Exploration
- Where Federal R&D Money Goes
- Questions About Government- Funded Drug Research
- Clarifying Human Genome Ownership
- Disagreement Over Rights Scuttles Cooperative Genome Effort
- Curious Agenda Of Mental Health Agency
- Do The Media Drive Disproportionate Funding For AIDS?
- Lab Objects To Refunding Money For Bogus Research
- Researcher Faked Data On Cancer Link With Power Lines
- Funds Allocated To Study Non-Disease Disappear
- Power Line Research Faked
- Who Owns Federally-Subsidized Research?
- More Federal Billions For Information Technology Research?
- More Evidence Of Fraud In Research
- When Advocacy Disrupts Science
- U.S. Mired In Russian Space Mess
- Technology R&D Subsidies Aren't Needed
- Private Group Mapping Human DNA
- "Constructivism" And The National Science Foundation
- Science Shifting To Private Sector
Small Business Administration
- Losing Other People's Money
- Piling On Debt At The SBA
- SBA Is Not Necessary
Student Loan Programs
- "Tax Immunity" For Defaulted Student Loans
- Abolish The Direct Student Loan Program
- Nationalized Student Loans
Training Programs
- Americorps Knee Deep In Politics And Welfare Promotion
- Job Training Success Overstated
- EPF Report: Spending On Worker Training Misdirected
- Fraser Institute: Do Government Training Programs Work?
- Scant Evidence Government Job-Training Programs Work
Treasury Department
- New Talk Of A Dollar Coin
