GAO: economic development duplication still rampant among four agencies spending $6.2 billion

As Congress negotiates a final version of financial reform, one group of lenders has already won a blanket carve out from increased bank reg

With small farms mostly exempt from federal and state food safety enforcement, locavores bear responsibility for what they buy

Most farms are exempt from federal workplace safety rules. Given ongoing grain entrapment problems, some say they shouldn't be.