For all the recent diversions over Medicare and abortion, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is still running a campaign that paints with a broad economic brush in hopes of rallying voters on jobs and fiscal policy.

Illinois edged closer to having its worst-in-the-nation credit rating lowered even further as a rating agency declared Thursday that failure to address massivepension problems is a "credit negative" for the state.

Mike O'Malley is 55; wife Sharon is 53. So what?

Maryland has received a $123 million federal grant to support development of the state's health benefit exchange.

A task force looking for ways to cover Kentucky's $19 billion public pension shortfall will explore the idea of borrowing enough money through the sale of government bonds to resolve the crisis.

Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that Texas clinics are operating like normal for now, even as state officials move to quickly freeze funding after a federal court gave Republican lawmakers a victory in their efforts to punish health providers linked to abortion services.

California's largest pension plans are being asked to put a priority on home-grown investments, part of a bill sent to the governor this week.

Principal Financial Group Inc., a retirement fund management and insurance company, said that its board approved the increase of its quarterly cash dividend to 21 cents.