The company will be reducing its total amount of pension obligations by about $2.5 billion.

Forty-two percent of LGBT people reported a fear that that they would outlive the money they had saved for retirement, whereas only a quarter of non-LGBT respondents reported the same concern.

Health insurers paid by the U.S. government to provide Medicare coverage will see their rates cut by about 0.9 percent next year, the U.S. government said.

While small business owners have suffered under the pressure of taxes and regulations from federal, state and local government bodies, there is a trend that seems to making small business survival even more difficult - direct competition from governmental bodies, primarily at the state and local levels.