The Department of Education spent $40,375 in 1978 — $183,403 in 2022 dollars — on a career and life-planning course for its employees, earning it a Golden Fleece Award.
Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, gave awards to wasteful and nonsensical spending, eventually handing out 168 Golden Fleece Awards between 1975 and 1988.
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