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House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama talked about jobs legislation Thursday in a 10-minute phone call today, the Ohio Republican's office said.

A 78-year-old grandmother who urged a repeal of Ohio's overhaul of collective bargaining rights is suddenly at the center of a high-stakes battle over the future of public labor unions in the state.

If there's a policy star in the Republican presidential primary it may be Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax overhaul plan.

Health insurers Humana Inc. and HealthSpring Inc. have promising growth prospects, partly because of their Medicare Advantage businesses, according to an Oppenheimer analyst who upgraded shares of both companies to "Outperform" from "Perform."

More than 5,000 new online job placements for recruiters and employment specialists were posted in September, according to WANTED Analytics, which, the company says, could mean employers plan to hire more.

Fewer human resource professionals feel positive about the fourth-quarter jobs market in comparison to 2010, finds a report by the Society for Human Resource Management.