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The number of people applying for unemployment benefits declined slightly last week, leaving applications above levels consistent with a healthy economy.

When comparing the second quarter to first quarter of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, job growth in Florida from the stimulus funding dropped 1.6 percent as the spending in the state comes to an end, reveals a report by the Collins Center for Public Policy.

An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking effect a new law designed to reduce the number of abortions performed in the state by restricting the ways in which doctors can treat women with abortion-inducing drugs.

Perry told the Western Republican Leadership Conference on Wednesday that he'll unveil the tax as part of his broad plan to revive the economy and create jobs. He says he plans to outline his proposal in an economic speech next week.

Some 55 million Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year, their first raise since 2009, the government announced Wednesday.

Stocks jumped in late afternoon trading on reports that France and Germany have agreed to boost a rescue fund as part of an effort to stem the European debt crisis.

The rise and fall of the Class Act, a key component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not only represents a microcosm of the reform law as a whole, but the administration's broader political strategy for a lack of better word.

Social Security recipients will get a raise in January their first increase in benefits since 2009.