Number of American households needing assistance reached record levels during the recession.

GAO counts more than 50 financial literacy programs across 20 agency, creating confusion and duplication

Officials from the Obama administration will likely be frequent visitors to this panel once Darrell Issa takes the gavel....

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

In an unusually public spat, the independent watchdogs inside a dozen federal agencies are alleging government officials have hindered sensi

Senate Aging Committee Chairman Herb Kohl says a Center for Public Integrity investigation that uncovered security, management and procureme

Medicare doesn't know if all the prescriptions it is paying for are being written by real doctors, says a new inspector general's report....

Taxpayer-funded Medicare recently spent more than $1 billion on drug prescriptions missing a valid doctor identification number and a Senate

Washington lobbyists have been enjoying a multi-million-dollar sugar rush from the food industry. Soft drink makers, supermarket companies,