Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

* Independence Party takes first place in vote * Little public trust in parliament * Election seen as rejection of bailout terms and EU membership * Campaign focused on household debt relief By Balazs Koranyi and Robert Robertson REYKJAVIK, April...

It's the question Kathryn Hoffman hates to ask, especially of the elderly people who come into her office looking for help. Do you have a burial plot? How much is it worth? But that question is one of many Hoffman must ask as a food stamp outreach...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Lawmakers began setting the table Wednesday for how to spend $49 billion in the next Michigan budget, with big disputes to be resolved next month over expanding Medicaid, boosting road maintenance, giving tax credits for movie-...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A House panel has approved legislation that would strip some welfare benefits for families whose children don't meet school attendance requirements. Under the bill approved Wednesday, parents in the family independence program...

* Decree brings grants of land, loans under one umbrella * Removes hurdle to $67 bln construction programme * Addresses major social, political issue * But administering process may be slow * Solution to housing shortage may take a decade By Martin...

DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - A royal decree in Saudi Arabia has shaken up the way in which the government allocates vast tracts of land, removing an obstacle to a $67 billion program to ease the country's housing shortage. King Abdullah originally...

Since February, Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has been accused of using vague language in describing its fear that the state would lose money by expanding Medicaid coverage to more poor residents under the Affordable Care Act. The administration...

SPRINGFIELD, MO. -- New requirements to get the assistance many Missouri residents depend on have been approved by the State House.  Those lawmakers have passed several bills that make up what's being called welfare reform legislation. More than 100,...

“I’m glad to see Sheriff Mullendore has finally admitted that the purpose of speed cameras in school zones is to generate money, and not for the safety of our children.” — Williamsport “I, for one, am tickled to death to...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some low-income Michigan families would have to pass drug tests and make sure their children don't miss too many days of school in order to qualify for welfare benefits, under legislation being considered by the state...

Speedway tax rebates Normally, I don't like the idea of my tax dollars going to corporate interests in the form of tax breaks or rebates that I don't get. Rick Joyce, in his guest column, "Daytona Speedway project would bring jobs and tourists," on...

Pushed off the front pages last week by the Boston Marathon bombing was a Chicago horror story with implications as far-reaching as any terrorist plot. FBI agents raided a small hospital on Chicago's West Side where, according to federal investigators,...