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President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweeping long-term deal within two weeks to raise the nation's borrowing limit rather than "kick the can down the road" with a makeshift, short-term solution to stave off a first-ever U.S. default. And he declared the agreement must include the tax...

They say insurance is the one career no one really plans to follow.

State employee union leaders on Tuesday asked Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to "reconvene discussions" with them to see what can be done to quickly stop thousands of looming layoffs.

A court date has been set to hear arguments in a lawsuit over changes to New Hampshire's public pension system.

A growing number of 403(b) retirement plan sponsors use third-party administrators (TPAs) for key plan services, and a new analysis shows that practice may be leading to better plan design.

About 5 percent of the population is responsible for almost half of all health care spending in the United States and for rising premium rates, according to a new report from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation.

It's the economy stupid. That catchphrase dominated Bill Clinton's re-election campaign several years ago. Politicians -- as well as pundits -- a still occasionally return to that well. And it would be as shocking as the Casey Anthony verdict if it didn't play prominently in next year's presidential election cycle,...

The National Institute on Retirement Security released a study last week that analyzed six state pension plans that remained well-funded through the recession. The purpose of the study was to learn what best practices exist to keep plans financially strong.