Ben D. Kritz
Ben D. Kritz

For today’s lesson, we have to make a couple of wildly irresponsible assumptions: First, that the existence of funds like the so-called “Disbursement Acceleration Program,” or DAP, is actually legal, and that it and other funding mechanisms like the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), or “pork barrel,” are objectively distributed.

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