This is a critical time for HHS. With just days left before the exchanges open for enrollment on Oct. 1, we shouldnt be surprised to see HHS highlight what sound like positive results.

Labor Day was established more than 100 years ago and a lot has changed about our economy in the decades since, most of it good, but some of it perhaps less so.

That whole health insurance crisis weve been trying to fix? Thats nothing compared to what were all about to face.

The arguments against raising the minimum wage strike me as wrong, miserly and even immoral.

People who work at a job without paid sick time come to work sick. And then guess what? They make everyone else sick. Youve seen the movie; it's how pandemics spread.

The question gnawing at public pension funds over the past few days? Who might prevail in the Detroit bankruptcy? The bondholders or pensioners?

Remarkably, amid all of this summers turmoil, theres a bit of good news to share.

Getting the nations arms around legislation that changes so much about the way we live is not something that happens overnight.