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 ...

As I’ve pointed out repeatedly since last fall, the General Assembly may face some tough decisions over the 2025-27 budget ...

Again, many critics exclaim that "pork barrel" is at the center of these budgetary circus-like developments. However, do we really know what "pork barrel" means, and why do we use pork barrel as a ...

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 ...

More known as pork barrel, these items, under certain circumstances, which unfortunately happen most of the time in the Philippines, involve serious breaches of public trust. In fact, such ...

Republican lawmakers are threatening to sue Gov. Phil Murphy over so-called pork-barrel spending in New Jersey’s budget, charging that millions earmarked for property-tax relief have been ...

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. — A proposed resolution recently introduced in Lansing would change the rules for introducing a bill in what Republicans call a "transparency measure." State: Whitmer announces ...

Over the past few years, lawmakers themselves have slipped into the state budget hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to local governments and nonprofits — pork-barrel spending, to put it ...