Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

  • Advertisements

The late Tamerlan Tsarnaev smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass. The Tsarnaevs may have received $100K in public benefits over the past decade, and state lawmakers are investigating the possibility that some were improperly received . (Julia Malakie/The Lowell Sun/AP/File)

9:13 am ET -

Tsarnaev family's benefits, perhaps totaling over $100K, are being investigated by state lawmakers. The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received benefits as children when the Tsarnaev family was in America, and suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife, and toddler received welfare until last year. 

Could you pass a US Citizenship test?

More Business

  • Weekly review of global news and ideas
  • Balanced, insightful and trustworthy
  • Subscribe in print or digital

Special Offer

 

Doing Good

 

What happens when ordinary people decide to pay it forward? Extraordinary change...

Paul Giniès is the general manager of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Burkina Faso, which trains more than 2,000 engineers from more than 30 countries each year.

Paul Giniès turned a failing African university into a world-class problem-solver

Today 2iE is recognized as a 'center of excellence' producing top-notch home-grown African engineers ready to address the continent's problems.

 
 
Become a fan! Follow us! Google+ YouTube See our feeds!