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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a proposal that aims to reel in the state's spiraling health care costs by $160 billion over the next 15 years. The House and Senate must now resolve their differences over the measure before it can go to Gov. Deval Patrick.

Here we go again. In an event about as frequent as a bipartisan vote, employers are apparently on the same page as their employees.

Weve been hearing for a while how employer-based health plans are an endangered species. And it appears that beeline to extinction is accelerating. Maybe.

President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats court female voters by pushing a bill that calls for equal pay in the workplace.

Democrats in Minnesota's congressional delegation are in a bind over a bill by Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen to eliminate a tax on medical devices like those made by Medtronic and other Minnesota companies.

The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a $868,974 National Emergency Grant increment to offer extended employment-related services to approximately 400 workers impacted after the closure of the Sonoco Packaging Products in Devens, Mass., as well as related layoffs by Debbie's Staffing in Ayer, Mass., which supplied temporary workers to...