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Fifty-four percent of employers say they intend to hire recent college graduates, marking an increase from 46 percent in 2011, 44 percent in 2010 and 43 percent in 2009, according to a new study from CareerBuilder and CareerRookie.com.

As companies are shifting responsibility for health and financial decisions to their employees, both brokers and HR managers need to take a different approach.

The Federal Reserve has boosted its outlook for U.S. economic growth this year and is slightly more optimistic about the unemployment rate, reflecting improvements in recent months.

Supreme Court justices strongly suggested Wednesday that they are ready to allow Arizona to enforce part of a controversial state law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they think are in the country illegally.

Forty percent of information technology leaders expect increases in permanent positions while 37 percent anticipate growth in temporary positions, according the quarterly IT Executive Outlook survey by staffing firm TEKsystems.

Across all areas in North America, the hiring outlook is improving for administrative as well as commercial jobs, according to a recent hiring trends survey conducted by staffing company Express Employment Professionals.

Senate Republicans are trying an unusual tactic to nullify new labor regulations that would speed up the time frame for unions to hold workplace elections.

Fifty percent of Minnesota businesses believe the states economy will improve in the second quarter, which is an increase from 39 percent in the previous quarter and twice the percentage from only six months ago, according to Twin Cities Businesss quarterly economic indicator survey.