Foundation for Government Accountability
The Foundation for Government Accountability promotes better lives for individuals and families by equipping policymakers with principled strategies to replace failed health and welfare programs nationwide. Our core principles include transparency, private enterprise, individual liberty and limited, constitutional government. As an organization, we demand integrity, honesty, perseverance and personal accountability. Governed by an independent Board of Directors, the Foundation for Government Accountability is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501c(3) tax-exempt organization. Charitable donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. FGA’s support comes almost entirely from individuals who agree with our mission and are committed to the principles of freedom and the free market. The remainder is from private foundations and businesses who share our desire for good ideas that protect patients and taxpayers. We do not seek or accept government funding, and we do not perform contract work for any entity.www.thefga.org
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Oct 13, 2026
Elisa TarshisGUEST
And then we're also actively looking at who are the other organizations out there doing this work.
Elisa TarshisGUEST
So for example, the Foundation for Government Accountability is running a bill in Florida this coming session with, uh, Byron and Erica Donald that has to deal with permitting.
Elisa TarshisGUEST
And they are basically saying if you don't approve a permit by a certain number of days, it's as if you approved the permit.
Elisa TarshisGUEST
By the way, it took me 173 days to get a permit in Miami for one of our schools, so that's a fun fact.
Chris MartensonHOST
The airline reported record quarterly revenue and said demand remained strong.
Chris MartensonHOST
In U.S. politics, the Foundation for Government Accountability estimated taxpayers lose up to $521 billion a year to federal fraud and improper payments, about 7% of spending, with $3 trillion since 2003.
Chris MartensonHOST
It said only 64 of more than 2,200 payment programs are reviewed yearly.
Chris MartensonHOST
Author Liesl Crocker said fraud appears where checks are easiest to get, including Medicaid, food stamps, and Medicare.
Owen GregorianHOST
I think it's through 2003, so maybe 25 years.
Owen GregorianHOST
But yeah, apparently the, this founding, Foundation for Government Accountability report, uh, says it's about $3 trillion that have been lost to fraud.
Owen GregorianHOST
Um, and that adds up to about 521 billion every year.
Owen GregorianHOST
So it's about 7% of the federal budget.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril Meaden with the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coalition joins us to discuss this important and exciting development.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril is the senior fellow for federal affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, and prior to joining FGA, she was on the speaker's leadership staff in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril is an outspoken advocate for parents' rights and for school choice, and she's just the right person to help us understand the significance and the content of the rules, as well as what happens next.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril Meaden, welcome to Freedom to Learn.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril Meaden with the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coalition joins us to discuss this important and exciting development.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril is the senior fellow for federal affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, and prior to joining FGA, she was on the speaker's leadership staff in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril is an outspoken advocate for parents' rights and for school choice, and she's just the right person to help us understand the significance and the content of the rules, as well as what happens next.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Avril Meaden, welcome to Freedom to Learn.
WillHOST
And the Congressional Research Service reported, um, Report R forty-five three seventeen, Welfare to Work experiments that paired requirements with job and education services raised employment and wa- wages, right? So this is a study the Congressional Research Service put together and figured out that this welfare to work experiment was producing good results, right? So that's encouraging from that perspective, that if you can put, put people back to work or get them to at least try to work some even while they're on welfare, um, maybe they can, they can make the transition, right? They can literally pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
WillHOST
Um, the Foundation for Government Accountability says it tracked more than a million adults under the SNAP work rules, and many went back to work with incomes more than doubling in a year.
WillHOST
Now, doubling from welfare checks is not as impressive, but hey, it's, it's heading in the right direction.
WillHOST
And then there's reporting from, uh, Levin that, that the Linda Taylor case, right, we talked about the Welfare Queen already.