Problem definition: Charities face tension when deciding whether to earmark donations, that is, allow donors to restrict the use of their donations for a specific purpose. Research shows that ...

On February 25, the House Appropriations Committee opened its portal for members of Congress to submit Community Project Funding requests for ...

The House ethics committee is grappling with how it should interpret the new rules governing earmarks and explain what is legal and ethical, and what is not. “It is a particularly difficult issue to ...

Congressional appropriators aren’t meeting the White House’s goal of creating a searchable earmark database, according to transparency advocates. A group of watchdogs called EarmarkData.org is ...

More than 30 South Carolina charities granted a combined $11.3 million through the budget earmark process over the past two years were out of compliance with state law and should not have been ...

U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko, a Republican from Arizona, speaks June 12, 2024, at a press conference opposing earmarks. (Lia Chien/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON – A group opposed to wasteful government ...

Özer, Özalp; Urrea, Gloria; Villa, Sebastián. To Earmark or to Nonearmark? The Role of Control, Transparency, and Warm-Glow. M&SOM: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Mar/Apr2024, Vol. 26 ...

but many groups fail to grasp the finer points of lobbying or the types of projects that lawmakers find attractive, lobbyists and experienced fund raisers say. Among the key elements that tend to make ...

House Republicans are trying to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Making the vilified practice of congressional earmarking both popular with the public and tolerable among their own naysayers. New ...

If politicians can’t come up with an effective solution to a problem, it sometimes works to put forth a largely irrelevant proposal and then stage a big fight over it as though it really mattered.

A $1 million earmark that would fund the renovation of an LGBTQ community center in Pennsylvania was stripped from the six-bill spending package under consideration this week after backlash from ...