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The foundation survey found that 35.6 percent of employers have reacted very positively while 41.5 percent reacted somewhat positively to the DOMA ruling. Less than one-quarter have reacted negatively.

Generation X those between the age of 30 and 50 is deemed to be the most analytical of any group, with 58 percent rated as advanced or expert and only 6 percent rated non-existent or poor.

The rules will require most government contractors to set a goal of having disabled workers make up at least 7 percent of their employees. The benchmark for veterans would be 8 percent.

Congress or the courts may still have more work to do before the VA can start providing federal benefits to married, same-sex couples.

Wal-Mart, America's single-biggest employer outside of the U.S. federal government, has announced that in 2014 it will begin offering health care benefits to employees' domestic partners.

The Seattle-based caffeine vendor, which employs 150,000 full-time workers worldwide and many thousands more in part-time positions, says it will not try to shift full-time workers to part-time status in order to avoid paying healthcare costs as required by the PPACA.