The debate is raging from coast to coast, with recent hot spots, Rhode Island, Detroit and California, in the news.

Finding skilled workers is harder than it sounds even in this economy.

More than 300,000 people stopped working or looking for a job in August. Their exodus shrank the so-called labor force participation rate the percentage of adult Americans with a job or seeking one to 63.2 percent.

The minimum coverage rules and the mandate penalty rules are not twins.