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Shares of insurer HealthSpring Inc. stumbled Wednesday, a day after the health insurer said its second-quarter net income climbed 50 percent and it raised its annual earnings forecast.

To attack Wall Street is to attack Main Street. Politicians (and their mass media underlings) seem to forget this. Apparently, so do social activists.

Most employees can expect to see voluntary benefit options added to their benefit plans thanks to new regulatory and economic issues. Half of employers surveyed by Colonial Life & Accident Insurance say they expect to add voluntary, employee-paid insurance benefits to their plans within the next year.

For once, there’s talk about declining health care costs.

Given a second chance to ratify a labor deal that could stop thousands of state employee layoffs, union leaders in Connecticut are turning to rank-and-file members to help persuade their colleagues to vote "yes" this time.

The nation's bills are being paid and Congress has bolted the hothouse of Washington, one debt limit deadline beaten and another ahead for a dozen yet-to-be-named lawmakers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in March 2011, employer-provided retirement benefits were available to 78 percent of full-time workers.

Gov. Sam Brownback's administration is beginning an early retirement program for eligible state employees in an effort to reduce Kansas government spending.