104,000 Hours Wasted Annually at US Interior Dept.
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Government Computer News is reporting that a 15-page Inspector General's report on time wasted by workers at the U.S. Department of the Interior has raised such a stir that the Dept.'s own servers have seen major slowdowns due to excessive downloads of the report.
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WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia risks losing federal funds because it has overpaid contractors almost $100 million for medical services, an audit found.
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Members of Congress, efficiency advocates and some businesses say the department's failure to mandate better energy efficiency is costing millions of dollars in higher energy costs, polluting the environment and increasing reliance on foreign energy.
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America's doctors-in-training are committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work over 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the U.S. medical community has been slow to tackle sleep deprivation in its staff.
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America&#39;s doctors-in-training are committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work more than 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the US medical community has
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With more than 28 million Americans suffering from debilitating migraine headaches each year, employers also suffer through missed days from work and reduced productivity.
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The District wasted nearly $100 million over the past five years overpaying health care contractors for services that many Medicaid patients did not receive, a situation that puts the city in danger of losing federal funding, the D.C. Office of the Inspector General said yesterday.
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An internal FBI audit has found the  agency violated rules more than 1,000 times while collecting  data on domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial  transactions in recent years, The Washington Post reported on  Thursday.
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A recent survey concluded that businesses spend up to $3.1 billion annually on remedial training for employees with poor writing skills.
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The U.S. government's biggest department is also one of the most prone to waste, fraud and abuse, raising concerns about the effectiveness of many of its programs, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
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Ministers have spent more than Â£430m on making staff redundant in an efficiency drive, the Lib Dems say.
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The federal deficit of the US government hit a record high of US$436.9 billion in the first 11 months of fiscal year of 2004 ending on September 30, the Treasury Department reported on Monday.
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The Bush administration illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare law, and as a penalty, the former head of the Medicare agency, Thomas A. Scully
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The agencyÂs inspector general accused Interior Department officials of widespread ethical failures from cronyism to cover-ups of incompetence.
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The communications industry spent &#36;704,000 on 450 trips for lawmakers on two congressional oversight committees, their families and staff members in the past four years, a watchdog group reported.
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Bank of America Corp. employees volunteered 650,000 hours last year building homes for the poor, cleaning coastlines, and doing other charitable work, and the bank is eager to tell people about it. So eager, in fact, that it puts that number in glossy brochures and alerts local news media when its employees collect toys or fix homes for charity.
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WASHINGTON -- The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that human waste dripped from the ceilings has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress yesterday.