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Not Much Evidence For California's Project Roomkey
Every year cities participate in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Point in Time (PIT) estimate of the homeless population.
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Episode 28: The State Political Fraud Pipeline
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DC Water’s Implausibly High Volumes
DC Water is the water and sewer authority for Washington D.C.
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Egregious Medicaid Spending Anomalies Easy To Identify, Already Well Known
On Friday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) working with Health and Human Services (HHS) released provider-level spending data for…
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Post Confirms The Honeybee Apocalypse That Never Was
An Investigative Economics story from April of last year detailed how Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was never a real concern, never threatened to…
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Maryland’s Struggle With SNAP Is With Theft, Not Agency Fraud
In 2022, the state of Maryland had a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—otherwise known as food stamps—payment error rate of 35.56…
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January 2026

Maryland’s Revised Budgets Show The Excess Spending Under Hogan
A previous Investigative Economics story on Maryland’s disappearing budget surplus noted that state financial documents showed the state’s $5 billion…
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Obama Awarded Homan At the Nadir of ICE Enforcement
Tom Homan is the current White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations related to immigration enforcement, or…
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Further Reading, Vol. II
Recent updates to stories previously covered by Investigative Economics.
The Improbable Consistency of Anthropogenic Atmospheric CO2 Measurements
The most common source of carbon dioxide measurements in the atmosphere is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Mauna Loa…
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Not Just Three Mile Island: Low Demand, Interest Rates Killed Nuclear Power's Heyday
From the late 1960s to the early half of the 1970s, nuclear power was growing by leaps and bounds in the United States.
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Minnesota Set to Expand Its Daycare Funding Six-Fold
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that it would withhold all funding to Minnesota following accusations of corruption…
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