federal spending

RSG #344: How to Investigate Government Payments Made Through Intermediaries

Government money rarely travels in a straight line. Learn how to follow federal funds through contractors, nonprofit organizations, fiscal agents, consultants, subrecipients, and conveniently forgettable corporate entities. Public officials love announcing that an agency awarded ten million dollars to improve public safety, protect vulnerable families, or modernize something that worked perfectly well before a consultant …

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Resistance Kitty investigates a government program that remains authorized by law while its funding, staff, application portal, and public services disappear.

RSG #322: How To Find the Government Program That Disappeared Without Being Formally Eliminated

Resistance Survival Guide #322 A government program does not always die with a press conference, a congressional vote, or even a properly signed piece of paper. Sometimes officials simply stop hiring the staff, announcing the grants, processing the applications, publishing the reports, answering the telephone, or updating the webpage. The program remains legally alive while …

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