Bank of America will cut about 30,000 jobs over the next few years in a bid to save $5 billion per year. The cost-cutting drive is part of a broader effort to reshape and shrink the nation's largest bank as it copes with fallout from the housing bust.

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President Barack Obama bluntly challenged Congress on Monday to act now on his new jobs plan, brandishing a copy of the legislation in the Rose Garden and demanding: "No games, no politics, no delays."

As the economy remains poor, the cost of health care remains growing concern to consumers, according to Deloitte's 2011 Survey of Health Care Consumers.