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The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
This week, our award is going to the National Institute of Health (NIH) for spending roughly $1.4 million to develop an app that focuses on connecting Latina women in real-time for social walks.
The National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities — a subsidiary of NIH — funneled the taxpayer dollars to Klein Buendel, Inc., a small, woman-owned health communication research and technology firm that, according to its website, “designs, develops, and evaluates public health interventions in collaboration with academic, public, and private partners.”