Today’s job market isn’t easy for anyone, but recent college graduates especially are facing a tough time.

Twenty-four percent of middle-class Americans are increasingly unhappy professionally, and 39 percent of middle-class Americans are looking for new jobs, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.

For once, there’s talk about declining health care costs.

Lockton Benefit Group President Michael Brewer told lawmakers in Washington, D.C., more than 80 percent of employers are so committed to their employees that they plan to continue to offer group insurance, despite the uncertainty surrounding health care reform.

According to Aon Hewitt’s new absence management report, 85 percent of employers rank robust subject matter expertise regarding compliance as the most important component when measuring an absence management program’s success.

The U.S. Department of Labor is issuing a $3 million National Emergency Grant to create 230 temporary jobs in an effort to help with cleanup and recovery after severe flooding hit along the Mississippi River in May and June.

Between the latest commission regulations and uncertain employer attitudes, brokers are looking at a new health insurance landscape, and many are wondering if there's still a place for them in the market.

Many U.S. public corporations experienced relatively little immediate impact from the first say-on-pay proxy season; however, most companies are either planning or considering changes to their executive pay-setting process and overall preparations for 2012’s proxy season, according to a new survey by Towers Watson.