The district's minimum wage is $8.25 an hour, $1 higher than the federal minimum. San Francisco has the nation's highest minimum wage at $10.74, with Santa Fe, N.M., just 2 cents behind.

Federal courts in Ohio and California saw executives facing legal consequences for their involvements in employee pension plans.

TNS finds that more than a third (35 percent) of those it asked would look for another job if their employer were to discontinue providing health insurance without providing any funds to help repurchase health insurance on their own.

New Gallup numbers find that 56 percent of adults now say it is not the federal governments responsibility to make sure all Americans have health insurance.