Labor Department

Federal Worker Double-Dip

UPDATED 6:11 AM EDT, May 13, 2013 | BY John Solomon

The downsizing of the U.S. government may not be returning all the taxpayer savings it was intended. That's because displaced federal workers are being allowed to double-dip on unemployment benefits, with some making more in jobless aid than their former salaries, a new audit has found.

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UPDATED 0:06 AM EST, November 30, 2012

USA: Uncle Sam's Advertising

The government has spent more than $16 billion over the last decade on outside advertising, marketing and public relations contractors, feeding a cottage industry of inside-the-Beltway and Madison Avenue firms that help federal agencies burnish their images and tailor their messages, an investigation by the Washington Guardian and Northwestern University's Medill News Service has found.

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