Workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City, Mo., have voted to let their union leaders call a strike against the company.

The new federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) program is hard to get into, too expensive for the typical uninsured individual with a chronic illness, and under-promoted, according to officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Forty-nine percent of employers of all sizes say finding and retaining high-quality talent is one of the main business challenges, particularly in the talent management field, where respondents say that is the top issue, finds HireRights 2011 Employment Screening Benchmarking Report.