Connecticut

• North Carolina official argues against MetLife tax breaks

  By Emery P. Dalesio  |  April 17, 2013

  North Carolina business recruiters say a historically outsized package of about $100 million in state and local incentives to get MetLife Inc. to move 2,600 jobs from other states to North Carolina could stall benefits to other companies or force lawmakers to loosen up the rules.

• Should retirement plans include Social Security benefits?

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  April 3, 2013

  Social Security benefits are one of the great unknowns when it comes to retirement planning.

• Feds launch new batch of graphic anti-smoking ads

  By Mike Stobbe  |  March 28, 2013

  Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.

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  High court hears case on federal benefits for gays

  By Mark Sherman  |  March 27, 2013

  In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court turned Wednesday to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.

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  Scant progress on jobs for disabled Americans

  By Jennifer C. Kerr  |  March 25, 2013

  Whether it means opening school track meets to deaf children or developing a new lunch menu with safe alternatives for students with food allergies, recent Obama administration decisions could significantly affect Americans with disabilities. But there's been little progress in one of the most stubborn challenges: employing the disabled.

• Exodus from bonds?

  By Mark Jewell, Matthew Craft  |  March 25, 2013

  Market pros call it the Great Rotation. That's the long-awaited scenario when investors take their money out of bonds and sink it into stocks.

• Americans uncomfortable around mentally ill

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  February 28, 2013

  When it comes to mental health, Americans look hypocritical. According to Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest tracking poll, while most of the public believes people with a mental illness suffer from discrimination and prejudice, they admit they’re uncomfortable around such individuals.

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  Small business lessons from Lincoln

  By Donato Monaco  |  February 26, 2013

  Two hundred and four years after Abraham Lincoln’s birth, our country’s 16th president seems more popular than ever.

• Connecticut exchange hires Virginia firm to help consumers

  By Susan Haigh  |  February 25, 2013

  Connecticut's health care exchange announced Monday it has selected a Virginia company with a troubled history in the state to run a new center to help consumers enroll in a health insurance plan beginning later this year.

• Aetna expands Costco insurance offerings to Florida

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  February 25, 2013

  Florida residents can pick up more than just pounds of coffee and a 30-roll package of toilet paper at Costco—they can now buy health insurance there.