Your Tax Dollars -- Or Maybe Not

Have you heard of the Healthy Marriage Initiative? You should have. You paid $800 million for it. It's vague mission was to promote healthy marriages.

Has it worked? Most likely not. According to Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, there's been no "bump up or down" in marriage and divorce rates since the initiative was implemented.

So how, exactly, was this money spent? The answer to that is about as vague as the project's mission statement.

"Federal push has little effect on divorce." The Dallas Morning News; February 8, 2014; p. 4A.