Chris Butler

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Chris Butler is a reporter for Watchdog.org, a national network of investigative reporters covering waste, fraud and abuse in government. Watchdog.org is a project of the nonprofit Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity.

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  • They Claimed Giving All Students Free School Lunches Would Raise Test Scores. Here’s What Happened.

    Chris Butler
    In 2014, education leaders ranging from the U.S. secretary of education down to local school officials promised that kids would do better if districts adopted a federal program that provides no-cost lunches to students regardless of financial need. It hasn’t worked out that way in Chattanooga, Tenn. Board members in charge of the Hamilton County School System voted…
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  • Was Chattanooga’s Taxpayer-Funded High-Speed Internet Worth the Cost? Looking at a New Study
    Chris Butler

  • IKEA Wants Millions in Tax Incentives for Tennessee Store
    Chris Butler

  • New Orleans Mayor Calls on State Taxpayers to Fix City’s Violent Crime
    Chris Butler

  • Tennessee Lawmakers Don’t Plan to Tackle Government Theft
    Chris Butler

  • County Making Nice Profit Selling E-Cigarettes to Inmates
    Chris Butler

  • Officials Can’t Say How Government-Owned Internet Will Create Jobs
    Chris Butler

  • Tennessee Facing Fight Over Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
    Chris Butler

  • Tenn. Congressman Warns of Ebola Epidemic Unless Republicans Expand Obamacare
    Chris Butler

  • Taxpayers Spend $40 Million Each Year on a Housing Project That’s Plagued by Mold, Missing Locks, Exposed Wiring
    Chris Butler

  • Senate Housing Finance Bill Decried as ‘Residential Obamacare’
    Chris Butler

  • Government Workers Take Break From Regulating to Carve Jack-o’-Lanterns
    Chris Butler

  • IRS Struggling to Figure Out Which Companies Owe This Obamacare Tax
    Chris Butler

  • Unreleased Robin Williams Film Got $302K in Funding From Tenn. Taxpayers
    Chris Butler

  • Administrative Costs on the Rise in Tennessee Schools
    Chris Butler

  • City Officials Accused of Cronyism in Fight Over Uber, Lyft
    Chris Butler
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