Cost-Containment

In 2013, small business owners will contend with many of the same issues that made it hard to run their companies over the last 12 months.

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Planned Parenthood to temporarily block Oklahoma from terminating a contract with the agency to provide nutritional services to low-income mothers.

The pace of change in the health care market might be glacial when it comes to consumer engagement, but it remains steady. Employers, and by extension their employees, are moving toward a more account-based form of health care funding, but its clearly not happening overnight.

Gov. Tom Corbett said Monday that Pennsylvania apparently lacks the political will to become a "right-to-work" state, a key issue for conservatives as Republicans in fellow industrial state Michigan prepare to pass such a law over the protests of organized labor.

Citigroup said Wednesday that it will cut 11,000 jobs, a bold early move by new CEO Michael Corbat. The cuts amount to about 4 percent of Citi's workforce of 262,000.

If the NHL and the players' association are going to make a deal to save the hockey season, they are likely going to have to do it by themselves.

NHL owners and union officials are negotiating again at league headquarters Wednesday, the 67th day of the lockout.

The Senate Budget Committee voted to give the state's lowest-paid hourly employees a $1.25 per hour raise on Monday, following about two hours of debate over whether a minimum wage increase would spur New Jersey's sluggish economy or kill precious jobs.