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More employers are turning to accountable care organizations as a lower-cost employer-sponsored benefits option with a higher quality of care, according to a report by Aon Hewitt and Polakoff Boland.

After eight months of contract-wrangling and negotiations that dragged past a strike deadline, supermarket workers in Southern California will stay on the job and shoppers won't have to rely on Whole Foods or their corner liquor store for groceries.

Even if Congress heeds President Barack Obama's demands to "pass this bill right away" and enacts his jobs and tax plan in its entirety, the unemployment rate probably still would hover in nosebleed territory for at least three more years.

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Two days after repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays serving openly in the military, the Obama administration was in court Thursday opposing a lawsuit seeking full severance pay for those dismissed under the law.

Seventy-five percent of small businesses plan to add new positions, regardless of the economy, a slight jump from 2010s 72 percent, according to the Ink from Chase survey of CEOs of fastest growing U.S. small businesses.