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Congress gave President Barack Obama's drive to promote jobs growth a boost Thursday by presenting him with a major overhaul of the patent system that the president has sought as a means to spur innovation and put more people back to work.

When pension funds were first started in Germany in the mid-19th century, this retirement option made sense, says Amit Mohindra, director of research at the Institute for Corporate Productivity. At the time, employees would typically stay with one employer for their entire careers.

Officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama will ask Congress in his prime-time speech to deepen existing payroll tax cuts for workers as part of a jobs program that totals nearly $450 billion.

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The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) an employer group is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make administration of the new comparative effectiveness research fee as simple as possible.

Republicans and Democrats on the special supercommittee warned of a financial crisis threatening future generations as the congressional debt reduction panel kicked off its work Thursday with an imperative to slash the deficit and lift the sluggish economy.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week, evidence that the job market isn't improving.

America's sickly economy can be healed with jobs, jobs and more jobs. On that, everyone agrees. Figuring out how to produce them is what is stumping everyone.