With soaring food prices, more families throughout Ohio’s 6th Congressional District are feeling the crunch. According to a USDA estimate more than 570,000 households in Ohio live with hunger or the threat of hunger everyday. Of those, one-third must choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills. During the writing of the Farm Bill I worked to increase funding for the Food Stamp and Commodity Supplemental Food Program, two essential programs that serve on the front lines of fighting hunger throughout our state. I will keep working in Congress to bring federal initiatives to Ohio to help curb hunger and deliver healthy foods to our families in need.
Background This audit is part of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) worldwide review of USAID obligations for project and non-project assistance. The OIG's Division of Performance Audits (IG/A/PA) is leading this worldwide effort, with the assistance of auditors from all OIG offices of Regional Inspectors General. The worldwide audit is limited to obligations for project and non-project assistance which had unliquidated balances on September 30, 1996. It does not cover obligations funded with U.S.-owned local currency, obligations for disaster relief, or obligations maintained by USAID for the Trade and Development Agency. IG/A/PA randomly selected USAID sites for detailed audit work and also determined the number of unliquidated obligations to be randomly selected and then reviewed at each site.