A Record Year at the Federal Trough: Colleges Feast on $1.67-Billion in Earmarks

By JEFFREY BRAINARD and RON SOUTHWICK

Budget surplus feeds Congress's pork-barrel spending, intensifying criticism

Congressional spending for the academic pork barrel ballooned by 60 percent this year, to the largest

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