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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday rejected the idea of giving immigrants in the United States illegally a special pathway to citizenship, and said the House must chart its own course on immigration even if it never results in a bill President Barack Obama can sign.

Unemployment rates rose in more than half of U.S. states in July and fewer states added jobs, echoing national data that show the job market may have lost some momentum.

A health care trust for General Motors Co.'s retired factory workers raised $171 million in a public offering of warrants to purchase the automaker's stock.

Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.

Companies have all but stopped laying off workers. They just aren't hiring many.

With union membership on the decline, labor leaders are getting more creative and some say more desperate to boost sagging numbers and rebuild their waning clout.