While nearly all top HR decision-makers are concerned about health care costs’ effects on employees and on overall corporate costs, only 16 percent would like to see a federally tax-funded health care system implemented.

In recent years I’ve reported on some of the hardest hit markets in the United States, from real estate to health insurance to retirement plans. In such time, I’ve seen cyclical paths to recovery, and I’ve always wondered where there’s logic in feeding one crisis with another one.

What do Glenn Beck and the brokerage industry have in common? America’s lightening rod accidentally exposes why we need a fiduciary standard.

A dozen farm workers sat in a circle of plastic chairs in a modest living room, listening as a union organizer talked about a bill she said would allow people to organize without fear, rebuild the union and improve conditions in the fields.