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Benefitfocus offers its clients carriers, among them a cloud-based subscription service to help them manage their benefits plans, and in so doing, has become one of the largest benefits software companies in the U.S.

A survey of 2,134 workers across industries and company sizes who graduated from college done by CareerBuilder tells us that about half (47 percent) of college grads report their first job after college wasnt related to their major.

Union members who called for a no vote did so to protest the Boeing Co.'s push to end a traditional pension plan and increase their health care costs. Workers would have received a $10,000 signing bonus if they approved the deal.

The new 2013 figures from the Census Bureau underscore the impact of the sluggish economy on young people.

The PPACA wasnt intended to displace employer-provided health care, of course, though critics and others have suggested it will do just that.

Only 15.1 percent say they are knowledgeable or very knowledgeable about health care reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts public exchanges.

Now that the IRS has made health flexible spending accounts more attractive, its time for HR professionals to swing into action.

Gallup finds that just 18 percent of uninsured Americans have so far tried to visit an exchange website.