Cost-Containment

Medicare says 2,225 hospitals are reporting readmission rates that need to be lowered.

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

Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He...

Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.

The HMO-style health care provider has angered some of its largest corporate users with a series of premium increases that, the companies say, are undermining Kaisers own competitive advantage.

Companies have all but stopped laying off workers. They just aren't hiring many.

Towers Watson finds that companies have pared back the types of perquisites offered to executives in recent years, especially transportation-related benefits.

You might have noticed lately that a lot of what we read online these days comes packaged in lists. There are well-documented reasons for this, one of which is that its apparently better at grabbing the average eye even if its one more number in a headline among thousands.