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The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding a $3.4 million grant to enlist re-employment and support services to approximately 850 workers who were laid off in July because of the closure of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. facility in Union City, Tenn.

With a Thanksgiving deadline fast approaching, the GOP members of a deficit-reduction supercommittee are pressing a plan to cut the deficit by about $1.5 trillion over the coming decade, showing flexibility on tax revenue increases for the first time while proposing to gradually raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67...

Only a fraction of small businesses that may qualify for help to offset the cost of health insurance have taken advantage of a tax credit that's included in the health reform package.

Another day, another set of mixed headlines about where the benefits business is headed. So today Ill just share a few, drop my snarky asides like some kind of belligerent court jester and let you get back to work.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has delayed until Nov. 22 a vote on a contentious resolution that would have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to unilaterally use its authority to exempt agent health commissions from the medical loss ratio, rather than waiting for Congress to act.

A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama's health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight.