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RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week September 21 to September 27 Featured Investigation: The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations Democrats are demanding $350 billion to extend A ...

Topline: Overtime pay is meant for employees working more than eight hours per day, but the Illinois Department of Corrections has found a way to circumvent that rule. Employees are using paid time o ...

Topline: The State of Washington spent $5 billion on homelessness prevention programs over the last 12 years, but there has been little measurable impact so far. There are currently more homeless peop ...

Topline: There were at least 235,502 retirees across the country who collected a public pension of $100,000 or more in 2024 -- costing taxpayers $30.6 billion -- and there are likely many ot ...

This is the first in a two-part series of the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country. For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for ...

Topline: Student performance in Baltimore City Public Schools is among the worst in the nation, but that has not stopped the district from splurging on its staff members, spending at least $613,181. T ...

Jim Simons' mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic models made Renaissance Technologies one of th ...

Topline: Working for the government is supposed to be a full-time job, but several employees have been caught working for several federal agencies simultaneously -- or at least claiming to be.&n ...

Topline: In a true embrace of the 21st Century, the federal government made sure its questionable spending at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 2011 was available in 3-D. A $24,632 grant from the Nationa ...

Topline: The State of Oregon logged 40,000 transactions worth $2.14 billion in its new online procurement system last year, but staffing shortages and poor oversight mean officials are "generall ...