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Hiring picked up slightly in July, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent. The modest improvement could ease fears of another recession, but it wasn't enough to prevent another wild day of trading on Wall Street.

President Barack Obama proposed tax credits for businesses and other initiatives on Friday to help some of America's 1 million military veterans find work. He also vowed to press Congress to get busy on legislation to provide more near-term jobs in general when lawmakers return from their recess in September.

An obscure provision tucked into the federal health care law has turned into a jackpot for Massachusetts hospitals, but officials in other states are upset because the money will come from their hospitals.

Throughout 2011 and 2012, a wave of generic versions for several best-selling drugs will roll out as brand-name prescriptions go off patent.

New Jersey is among seven states benefiting from an obscure provision tucked into the federal health care law.

Independent agencies Northridge Insurance and Scanlon Guerra Burke will combine their operations creating one of the largest insurance brokerages in Los Angeles.

It may not have been happening fast enough for some, but elements of health care were being “reformed” even before the term officially entered the picture.

Joel Ario, director of the Office of Insurance Exchanges at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), seems to be leaving that post.