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The discounts, which can amount to more than half a drug's list price, will be passed on at the pharmacy counter for many people starting next year.

The move is the latest step in the coffee giant's quest to improve the lives of its workers.

Maryland is on the verge of approving a plan that would impose a new, one-year state tax on insurance companies.

The chief investment officer at the Texas teachers pension fund has proposed adding 120 people over 5 years.

"We are disappointed that we have not achieved more at a faster pace," Marcela Hawn, a spokeswoman for the company, said in an email.

The spending bill was the insurance industry's last chance to bring down premiums before plans have to make decisions on where to sell and how to price coverage next year.

California will be the third state to set up its own auto-IRA for private-sector employees.

St. Louis Federal Reserve figures show that 40 percent of older people are jobhunting or still working.