Pennsylvania state government now has the authority to make one of its largest, if not its largest, bond issues ever as it looks to pay off a nearly $4 billion unemployment compensation debt to the federal government.

Employees are meeting with managers of The Times-Picayune as the newspaper prepares to trim its staff and publish three days a week.

A business-backed lobbying organization that pushed for an overhaul of Rhode Island's public pension system last year has announced it has a new chairman.

Mississippi's insurance commissioner says the state will receive nearly $1 million as part of a national settlement over insurer American International Group Inc.'s financial reporting for worker's compensation insurance.

Retired lawmakers would pay the same 20 percent of their health care premiums that other public retirees are being asked to pay under legislation passed by the Michigan House.

President Barack Obama will address the state of the economy, including the debt crisis in Europe that's become a drag on the U.S., in remarks at the White House Friday.

Employees hired after July 1, 2013, will receive an investment account similar to a 401(k) plan, instead of a monthly retirement payment based on their salaries and years of employment.

The incoming president of the American Medical Association says not to expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part of the sweeping federal health care law.