The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people.
Read More »Koch CEO vows to take on criminal justice system reform
Billionaire Koch Industries leader Charles Koch has vowed to step up his efforts to reform a legal system that he said has too many laws and too many prosecutions of nonviolent offenders.
Read More »Missouri to increase minimum wage on Jan. 1
Missouri's low-wage workers are getting a small pay hike in 2015.
Read More »LGBT baby boomers face tough retirement hurdles
Decades of workplace discrimination, an AIDS crisis that caused lasting financial and psychological damage, and legal pitfalls within Social Security, the cornerstone in any senior's financial planning, have left gay boomers ill-equipped for retirement.
Read More »National home sales dropped sharply in November
Fewer Americans bought homes in November as buying slid to its slowest pace in six months.
Read More »Data security in question after Sony hack
Companies across the globe are on high alert to tighten up network security to avoid being the next company brought to its knees by hackers like those that executed the dramatic cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Read More »Sony cyberattack may be costliest ever
The unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures which a U.S. official says is linked to North Korea may be the most damaging cyberattack ever inflicted on an American business.
Read More »In final 2014 push, Congress renews tax breaks
Banks, retailers, commuters and teachers will keep their temporary tax breaks for another year after Congress gave final approval Tuesday to a massive tax package affecting millions of businesses and individuals.
Read More »Memories of financial crisis fading as risks rise
Six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the lessons of the financial crisis may already be fading from collective memory.
Read More »BP appeals spill ruling that may spell $18 billion in fines
BP Plc challenged a federal judge’s ruling that the company’s exploration unit acted with gross negligence in causing the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a decision that exposed the U.K.-based energy company to as much as $18 billion in fines under U.S. law.
Read More »A new guide to trading on inside tips without going to prison
After a federal appeals court overturned two prominent insider-trading convictions Wednesday, new legal questions have sprung up about the chain of information that winds through the financial markets. For some participants, avoiding prosecution just got easier.
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