CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX #23
June 3, 2002
- Number of U.S. laws that expressly require the temporary suspension of government contractors from doing business with the government, if they are violated: 9 1
- Number of top government contractors that have ever been suspended or barred from receiving government business: 1 2
- Name of that company: General Electric 3
- Length of its suspension: 5 days 4
- Number of criminal violations for which General Electric has paid fines, 1990-2002: 63 5
- Date that Clinton Administration issued an anti-scofflaw rule that would have given federal contracting officials the authority to deny contracts to corporations that are repeat law-breakers: January 19, 2001. 6
- Date that the Bush Administration suspended implementation of that rule: January 20, 2001 7
- Number of states that penalize families, on the first violation, if a recipient of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) refuses to engage in required work: 19 8
- Number of families kicked out of the program in 1999 because they refused to work or committed other violations: 156,000 9
- Total corporate tax welfare received by General Electric on $51 billion in profits from 1996-2000: $12 billion 10
- Total cash welfare distributed to poor families in 2000 under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program: $10.8 billion 11
- Estimated cost to the states of implementing the new, more stringent work requirements called for by the just-passed House reauthorization of TANF: $11billion for work programs and child care, over the next five years 12
