Extravagances cut at legal aid program
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The $13 per person "high tea" service and $12 bagel breaks will be gone from the January directors meeting of the government's legal aid program for the poor. And the meeting will be held at the headquarters conference room rather than the upscale hotel used in the past.
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The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said Wednesday.
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Congress is trying to end a practice that unintentionally has allowed banks to take in billions of dollars meant to help students pay for college.
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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A study found that lawyers paid by the hour are less qualified and achieve worse results for their clients than those who earn salaries.
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The Justice Department is joining the American Civil Liberties Union in backing a student who lost his state-funded merit-based scholarship because he left college to serve a two-year church mission.
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Federal funding for the grant program that has helped hire thousands of community police officers across the country may be drying up. After several years of declining financial support, the Bush administration proposed no funding for that hiring program and others like it for the next fiscal year.
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The institutions that are to close or be merged under an effort to shrink New Yorkâs hospital industry will receive public funds to cover legal costs associated with closing and to pay off debts, state health officials said.
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The federal government awarded nearly $1.4 billion in grants to support local homeless programs Tuesday, a slight increase from the amount doled out a year ago.
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The law licenses of two former Internal Revenue Service lawyers have been suspended after they defrauded the courts so that the I.R.S. could win 1,300 tax shelter cases.
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The near doubling of financing is part of an effort to burnish the presidentâs humanitarian credentials.
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Insulated from lawsuits by their corporate structures, private investors in nursing homes have cut expenses and staff, sometimes below minimum requirements.
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Legal and research expenses drag its bottom line down.
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The State Department announced a $1 million emergency fund Thursday to help cover such expenses as legal fees and medical bills for human rights activists.
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Failed asylum seekers are to be offered an extra Â£500 to return home in the wake of figures showing the number of removals is at its lowest level for five years.
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Many low-income students are unaware that they are eligible for grants, says a university watchdog.
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Funding for services for mentally ill people such as Seung Hui Cho has decreased nearly 10 percent in Virginia since 2000, eroding key programs for thousands of people with non-severe mental disorders, documents and interviews show.