Investment earnings have boosted the South Dakota Retirement System's assets by about 22 percent for the state budget year that ends this week, according to state officials.
A contentious bill raising pension and health benefits costs for more than a half-million New Jersey government workers goes back to the state Senate one more time on Monday for a formality vote.
A new report says many public health provisions in the nation's year-old health care law have not received funding, and other funded efforts are under political attack.
A resolution to let voters decide whether Ohio should opt out of requirements under the federal health care overhaul has fallen one vote short of passage in the House.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the largest union representing workers in New York's executive branch reached a contract agreement that protects the union's members from administration plans for cost-saving layoffs, both sides announced Wednesday.