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Hospitals in Massachusetts will reap an annual windfall of $275 million through a loophole enshrined in the new health care law. Hospitals in most other states will get less money as a result.

Opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining overhaul scored a tactical victory Wednesday on the wording of a ballot question to repeal it, even as the Ohio Chamber of Commerce pledged to put the money and the political clout of its 6,000 business members behind defending the law.

Given a second chance to ratify a labor deal that could stop thousands of state employee layoffs, union leaders in Connecticut are turning to rank-and-file members to help persuade their colleagues to vote "yes" this time.

The U.S. Department of Labor is issuing a $3 million National Emergency Grant to create 230 temporary jobs in an effort to help with cleanup and recovery after severe flooding hit along the Mississippi River in May and June.

Americans are occasionally a little too optimistic.

Medication costs for the injured in Louisiana's workers' compensation system is more than double the average state with twice the amount of pills per claim, according to a new Workers Compensation Research Institute study.