Toyota has offered an incentive program to a significant portion of its American employees, hoping to lower labor costs and address an aging workforce.

The insurer American International Group Inc. said Monday that it has completed its purchase of a securities brokerage from Hartford Financial Services Inc.

Forty-three percent of Americans believe that a combination of spending cuts and tax increases are needed to solve the looming fiscal cliff, according to the results of a new national survey.

President Barack Obama's health care law expands Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people, but cost-wary states must decide whether to take the deal. Turn it down, and governors risk coming off as callous toward their neediest residents.