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Stimulus tax credit may increase penalties

By Laurel Adams

The “Making Work Pay” tax credit, which increased take—home pay for workers, may result in 13.4 million people actually owing the government

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FACT CHECK: Rick Perry’s dubious tax promise

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: Obamas' tax rate not lower than the average teacher's

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: Ad on billionaire's statement misses the facts

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: GPS's bogus tax attack against Obama

By FactCheck.Org

2010 census was successful; old-fashioned methodology seen as future problem

By Laurel Adams

With a price tag of $13 billion, the 2010 census was the costliest in the nation’s history. A report by the Government Accountability Office

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LA school abuse investigation runs into immigration fears

By Susan Ferriss

Lack of contract oversight puts billions at risk

By Laurel Adams

Pentagon contracting audit chief removed following critical Senate hearing

By Nick Schwellenbach

ITC hurt by agency's weak inspector general role

By Laurel Adams

Costs for 9/11 emergency responders’ health plan under scrutiny

By Laurel Adams

The federal government has failed to provide detailed information on health services for World Trade Center emergency responders, despite a

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Black lung surges back in coal country

By Chris Hamby

Landmark diesel exhaust study stalled amid industry and congressional objections

By Jim Morris

Radiation panel fairness questioned

By Jim Morris, Brendan McGarry and Marina Walker Guevara

White House urges end to programs that can make dangerous jobs safer

By Jim Morris

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Raising retirement age for Social Security would impact disability payments

By Laurel Adams

While policymakers debate how to keep Social Security solvent over the long-term, a Government Accountability Office report says there could

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ANALYSIS: Why the insurance industry needs Obamacare to stay in business

By Wendell Potter

FACT CHECK: False promises and facts on health insurance premiums

By FactCheck.Org

Analysis - Ryan's Medicare plan would be a windfall for insurance companies

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurers try to fool Congress with fuzzy math

By Wendell Potter

Medicare fraud included phantom services, equipment

By Laurel Adams

A sampling of Medicare providers who were overpaid by $206 million in 2007-08 showed some billed the government for phantom services or for

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Senators want more aggressive action to curb rampant Medicare fraud

By Joe Eaton

Senators Grassley, Wyden push to make Medicare billing data public

By Joe Eaton and David Donald

After banned from Medicare, podiatrist bills $1M for fake care, including double-amputee's feet

By Ben Wieder

Unsustainable Medicare spending

By The Center for Public Integrity

Immigration complications extend to alien children

By Laurel Adams

The Department of Homeland Security struggles to pinpoint if some aliens are under the age of 18, the age that determines if they are immedi

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Top lawmaker urges Obama to fill gov’t watchdog jobs

By John Solomon

Watchdog interference: Inspectors General say agencies hinder investigations

By John Solomon and Amy Biegelsen

Grassley asks for independent investigator to probe ATF

By John Solomon

Key senator ‘outraged’ by poor legal aid oversight

By John Solomon

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Pentagon scrimps on domestic abuse prevention

By Laurel Adams

Unreliable data means the Defense Department cannot pinpoint how many service members are involved in domestic violence incidents or identif

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Teen suspect in Ohio school shooting had violence in his early life

By Susan Ferriss

SEC too lenient with secrecy requests, says watchdog

By Julie Vorman

DOE accused of violating federal hiring rules

By Julie Vorman

Pentagon’s annual financial report still unreliable, inconsistent

By Julie Vorman

Boosting U.S. broadband access will require reasonable fees, watchdog says

By Laurel Adams

The United States has already deployed broadband Internet use to 95 percent of Americans but it will reach the final 5 percent only if month

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Ready, fire aim? Public broadband grants wait for no plan

By John Dunbar

Billions set aside to bridge broadband gap before creating plan on how to spend money

By John Dunbar

Poverty stretches the digital divide

By John Dunbar and The Investigative Reporting Workshop

District of Columbia’s poor pay triple for sub-par Internet service

By Laurel Adams

FOIA performance is getting worse

By Laurel Adams

Despite promises for more government openness, the Obama administration actually approved fewer Freedom of Information Act requests for fede

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Government transparency under Obama misses the mark

By Jim Morris

Filing a FOIA — How to get records out of the government

By Andrew Green

SEC hurries to clarify new FOIA exemption amid uproar

By Ariel Wittenberg

SEC loses short-lived FOIA exemption in financial reform law

By Laurel Adams

Health insurance eats up 9 percent of Pentagon’s total budget

By Laurel Adams

The cost of health insurance for active duty and retired military personnel has increased from $19 billion in 2001 to $49 billion in 2010. T

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Army health building upgrade canceled after questions raised about cost estimates

By Julie Vorman

Health care options for young, healthy and broke

By The Associated Press

For 12-Year-Old without an arm, insurance has run out

By Danielle Ivory

ANALYSIS: A new affront group

By Wendell Potter

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