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The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the second-lowest level in more than five years. The decline suggests hiring is improving from last month's sluggish pace.

Even patients with employer-sponsored health insurance are misusing the ER, as only 29 percent of these patients actually required immediate attention.

Small business owners support raising the federal minimum wage because they believe it will help the economy and, in turn, enable small companies to hire more workers.

Hundreds of immigrants in the U.S. illegally have been "medically repatriated" to their homelands through a little-known removal system run by hospitals seeking to curb high costs.

A survey by Right Management finds that 64 percent of workers say they've been approached about jobs by other employers in the past year.

Unemployment rates fell in more than half the U.S. states in March even as job growth slowed. Rates fell largely because many of those out of work stopped looking for jobs and were no longer counted as unemployed.