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The next few years could be tough for staffing companies that profit from new hiring, but a few firms may prosper amid the tepid economic recovery, according to a report Monday from Citi Investment Research & Analysis.

Hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling, President Barack Obama is preparing a September jobs package with limited tools at his disposal to prime the economy and crank up employment.

Workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City, Mo., have voted to let their union leaders call a strike against the company.

The new federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) program is hard to get into, too expensive for the typical uninsured individual with a chronic illness, and under-promoted, according to officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The Supreme Court of Texas issued a decision in Texas Mutual Insurance Company versus Timothy J. Ruttiger that reversed the Houston Court of Appeals ruling and required Ruttiger take nothing on his Insurance Code and Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act claims.

Michigan lawmakers acted illegally when they agreed to take 3 percent from the pay of government employees and earmark it for retirees' health care, the state appeals court said Friday