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Scores of seniors upset that the state wants to tax some of their public pensions for the first time packed into the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday as lawyers argued whether the new charge is legal.

Fixing the Rhode Island's public pension funding crisis will take a major overhaul, and everyone should expect to have to make sacrifices along the way, the speaker of the state House said.

An Iowa girl who was born two years after her father died is not eligible to receive his Social Security Benefits, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Twenty-five of the 100 largest U.S. corporations paid their chief executives more than they paid the government in federal income taxes last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

President Sebastian Pinera's wife Cecilia Morel said Tuesday that 14 of the miners who are at least 50 years old or suffer from health problems that prevent them from working will receive lifetime pensions of about $540 a month.

The school superintendent in California who is forgoing hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and benefits to help offset budget cuts to his school district has decided to give away even more.