Whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges will work was one of the questions that kept coming up Wednesday at a hearing on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fiscal year 2014 budget proposal.

Small business owners support raising the federal minimum wage because they believe it will help the economy and, in turn, enable small companies to hire more workers.

Van Eck Global and Merk Investments have separately filed registrations to issue new redeemable gold trusts in ETF format.

Typically, consumer-driven health plan participants have a reputation for being younger. But new research by Employee Benefits Research Institute shows that's not necessarily the case.