In conjunction with the stable tax policy, the wind industry could create and save 54,000 American jobs over the next four years, according to a recent study by Navigant, a global services firm that specializes in critical business risks and opportunities.

The IRS revealed Friday the 2012 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

Republicans who control the Michigan Legislature approved a bill Thursday aimed at blocking the offering of taxpayer-paid health insurance to domestic partners living with some public employees, but there's some dispute over whether the measure might cover universities.

President Barack Obama isn't backing down from demanding that Republicans confirm his pick to head a new consumer watchdog office, saying GOP lawmakers are depriving middle-class Americans of better protection against the kind of deceptive business practices that contributed to the financial meltdown.

San Franciscans passed a proposition in 2003 that requires the city to increase the minimum wage each year, using a formula tied to inflation and the cost of living. It's just another way the progressive people of the City by the Bay have shown their support for the working-class in...

Guaranteed pensions for relatively youthful government retirees paid in similar fashion to millions nationwide are contributing to nationwide friction with the public sector workers. They have access to attractive defined-benefit pensions and retiree health care coverage that most private sector workers no longer do.

House Republicans unveiled a bill Friday renewing the Social Security payroll tax cut and extending but trimming unemployment benefits but barreled toward a showdown with President Barack Obama by including language jumpstarting work on a controversial oil pipeline.

The U.S. Department of Labors newly revised interim policy on electronic disclosure clarifies that plan administrators and their service providers will not be out of compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) if they use continuous access websites to impart required disclosure information.