80 economic development programs in four agencies; why?

By Laurel Adams

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

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SBA emergency assistance failed for Katrina

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Housing secretary to release funds to struggling nonprofits

By John Dunbar

Lax oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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Public housing, private frustration

By Brian Ross, Avni Patel, John Solomon and Laurel Adams

Excerpts from this story referencing "Government Accountability Office":

"… d the Small Business Administration were criticized for duplication in the Government Accountability Office’s “high-risk” report earlier this year.An updated GAO analysis says …"

Wealthy ‘farmers’ snag federal dollars

By Joe Eaton

Forget stimulus checks; wealthy farmers raked in more than $49 million in federal funds between 2003 and 2006 that they may have been inelig

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Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

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Agricultural quarantine inspection stumbles

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Feds fight to keep names of ranchers with grazing permits secret

By Kristen Lombardi

25 percent of farmers sold loan collateral without permission

By Julie Vorman

Farm subsidies still missing from USDA’s data-rich website

By Jim Morris

The Agriculture Department says it makes farm subsidy data available to anyone who asks, but turning the data into something useful is tedio

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Feds fight to keep names of ranchers with grazing permits secret

By Kristen Lombardi

Public land grazing elicits some pretty damning declarations. Former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt once called livestock grazing “

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Rethinking OSHA exemption for farms

By Jim Morris and Howard Berkes

Europe’s new pesticide regulations leave America in the dust

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Wealthy ‘farmers’ snag federal dollars

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With development pressure off, townships and open spacers flex their dollars

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USDA can do better on animal import safeguards

By Julie Vorman

The U.S. Agriculture Department needs to tighten inspection procedures for live animal shipments entering the United States to prevent forei

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Agricultural quarantine inspection stumbles

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Feds have done little to contain genetically modified animals and plants

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25 percent of farmers sold loan collateral without permission

By Julie Vorman

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By Gil Shochat

25 percent of farmers sold loan collateral without permission

By Julie Vorman

The Farm Service Agency, which makes direct loans up to $300,000 to family farmers and guarantees similar loans made by banks, failed to tak

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Borrower Nightmares

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Judge orders Quicken Loans to pay $2.7 million award in West Virginia fraud case

By Michael Hudson

Broad reach of new consumer financial agency may fall short in some areas

By David Heath

Borrower Nightmares: $700 dormitory fee costs family its car

By Amy Biegelsen

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Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

By Gil Shochat

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2001 — When Brad Koetz was told that his impressive sunflower yield was unfit for human consumption, he was taken abac

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Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

U.S. states step up oversight of health insurance companies' rate increases

By Alexandra Duszak

ANALYSIS: Opaque transparency from the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: gaming Obamacare to benefit the few

By Wendell Potter

Excerpts from this story referencing "Franklin Roosevelt":

"… mall farmers were forced from their land by drought.In response, President Franklin Roosevelt in 1938 initiated the Agricultural Adjustment Act. It was aimed at insurin …"

USDA pulls plug on some farm subsidy data

Identifying some individuals who receive generous federal crop subsidies without going anywhere near a farm has gotten trickier. The Departm

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By Jim Morris

25 percent of farmers sold loan collateral without permission

By Julie Vorman

Agricultural quarantine inspection stumbles

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Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

By Gil Shochat

USDA challenged over meat safety

By The Center for Public Integrity

Meat recalls prompt critics to question USDA

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USDA audit says E. coli testing in ground beef is flawed

By Aaron Mehta

Food safety labs may not have capacity to handle a crisis like Japan's

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Laws haven’t kept deadly pathogens out of meat, poultry

By Teresa Lostroh and Rachel Albin

GAO: 15 agencies in charge of 30 food-related laws

By Laurel Adams

Agricultural quarantine inspection stumbles

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Things have not gone smoothly for the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program

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Inability to track foreign visitors to US

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$30 billion virtual border fence faces problems

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More than 40,000 cyber threats to government last year

By Laurel Adams

U.S.-Mexico "virtual fence" plagued by problems

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