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* Red tape suffocates investment * Trails peers in attracting foreign investment * Croatia four years in recession * Some local firms move production to non-EU neighbours By Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia, May 10 (Reuters) - The barren...

State welfare officials claim the agency has turned a corner, gotten its act together. If only ... Taxpayers should be grateful for the diligence of our new hero, Dedham police Detective Bob Walsh, who attempted to do the right thing in the wake of...

A mountain of new welfare records shows numerous EBT card cash withdrawals made by the Tsarnaev family, but so far there is no information about how terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev and others may have spent the money. The EBT receipts were handed over by...

Proposals by Gov. Paul LePage that would bar food stamp recipients from using benefits to buy junk food and make convicted drug felons ineligible for public assistance were rejected by lawmakers at the committee level along party lines Thursday. Both...

When the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development was held 20 years ago, circumstances in Japan and Africa were vastly different than they are today. Japan, despite the implosion of the bubble economy by 1993, was still the second-...

State welfare officials -- despite a widely touted crackdown on fraud -- never even returned the call of a Dedham cop who reported EBT benefits flowing to a house loaded with drugs and cash. Police Detective Bob Walsh alerted the state Department of...

Gov. Jerry Brown won't unveil his revised budget plan until next week, but Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez detailed some of his own ideas Wednesday. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) wants to increase state-subsidized employment for welfare recipients to put more...

* Correa won re-election in February with 57 percent of vote * New cabinet not expected to herald policy changes QUITO, May 8 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael appointed a new oil minister and a new finance minister on Wednesday, as the...

One of the nation's leading conservatives on Tuesday assailed a new Heritage Foundation report that says a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration policy would cost American taxpayers more than $6 trillion. Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for...

WASHINGTON -- Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint prefaced his condemnation of immigration legislation Monday with the same form of inoculation conservatives often use on such occasions: He quoted Emma Lazarus. "There's a statement at the bottom of...

Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 90-fold since 2008 — renewing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its...

SACRAMENTO — Speaker John Pérez wants voters to know something: Cash may be cascading into state coffers as it hasn't for years. Democrats may totally control the Assembly with a new supermajority. But they're not going to be drunken sailors....