Cost-Containment

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will reduce the total number of hours Americans work by the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs in 2017, mostly among low-wage earners.

The administrations approach to data analysis may be too weak to get good results from experiments aimed at delivering health care services more cheaply and effectively.

The law's employer mandate was delayed until Jan. 1, 2015, but 2014 employee headcounts will be used to determine whether they're subject to the law.

An MIT professor suggests employers operate with slack and turn minimum-wage workers into models of efficiency and productivity.

Mercer's questions on employee satisfaction with benefits revealed a harsh truth about employer-sponsored health coverage.

As it turns out, 96 percent of the House and Senate lawmakers behind the legislation do not pay their interns, according to the institutes research.

The president said hes setting aside $500 million for community colleges, rewarding them for creating the best job-driven training partnerships with employers and industry.

While low-wage workers would benefit from a pay raise, some say the trade-off could be fewer jobs, shorter workweeks and less incentive to acquire skills and get better positions.