Pork-barrel politics affect the economy in several ways. Pork-barrel spending occurs when the government earmarks funds to be spent in a specific region of the country, usually as a favor to an ...

The administration’s allocation of nearly one-fifth of the national budget to pork barrel projects over the past three years, as cited by a watchdog, is a blatant disregard of the pressing needs of ...

By Forrest Adams, Correspondent It’s a “lame-duck” session of Congress, but Republicans keep talking about pork. Pork-barrel spending is the term used when a member of Congress earmarks ...

The threat to withhold pork project money comes as residents in some Michigan cities lobby their leaders to protect ...

I would set aside a pool of earmark (“pork barrel”) money to be divided equally among all 435 members of Congress and a similar pool for the 100 senators, proportional to their state’s ...

THE Marcos Jr. administration has allocated nearly one-fifth of the national budget for pork barrel in the past three years, according to a public finance analyst. In an online discussion by Freedom ...

President Bongbong Marcos kept claiming he was against VP Sara Duterte’s impeachment. This week, his son Sandro Marcos was first of 215 congressmen to sign for impeachment.

Now this is what we mean by presidential patronage or 'the power of the pork barrel'. Mr Carter's ingenious and lavish plundering of it has surprised and alarmed a great many of his critics and ...

Brother, can you spare a dime? How about $36 trillion to pay off the national debt? Yes, that’s the number released by the ...

TV news, I heard about President Trump signing the “stimulus” bill. His desire for $2,000 per American was reported, but much of what the TV news media had to say about him ...

Pork-barrel politics affect the economy in several ways. Pork-barrel spending occurs when the government earmarks funds to be spent in a specific region of the country, usually as a favor to an ...