Career and Workplace

CalPERS health premiums will rise an average of 3% in 2014

2013-06-20 00:00:00

The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the country's third-largest purchaser of health benefits, said its health insurance premiums next year would increase 3%, on average, for nearly 1.3 million members. The giant pension fund said that...

Fed signals end to bond buys

2013-06-20 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke outlined a path for eventually ending the central bank's unprecedented stimulus efforts after Fed officials voiced surprising optimism about the economy. At the end of their two-day meeting...

Boehner torn between conservative issues and those with broad appeal

2013-06-19 18:25:00

WASHINGTON — About once a week, like clockwork, House Speaker John A. Boehner insists in a Capitol news conference that jobs and the economy are the "No. 1 concern" of his GOP majority. But from week to week, there's often another priority in the...

Salary Surfer site helps students gauge potential future earnings

2013-06-19 20:19:00

California community college students have a new website to help them choose fields of study — and provide a preview of their potential earning power. The Salary Surfer provides information on median annual incomes for 179 popular programs of...

Have California lawmakers earned their new 5% pay raises?

2013-06-19 15:07:00

Gov. Jerry Brown and members of the Legislature are getting pay raises. The little-known California Citizens Compensation Commission voted Wednesday to permit 5% salary increases for all statewide elected officials, the 80 members of the Assembly and...

What brought down TWA Flight 800? Group wants investigation reopened

2013-06-19 12:38:00

Federal officials are weighing a request to reopen the investigation of the 1996 explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 that went down off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 people aboard. A group of former investigators, interviewed in a...

Live blog: Fed Chairman Bernanke's outlook for the economy

2013-06-19 12:45:00

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke outlines what he expects for U.S. growth in the coming year as the central bank releases its policy statement. He'll also face TV cameras and reporters during a quarterly news conference. Reporters, editors and...

Unemployed? Underemployed? Recently hired? We'd like to talk

2013-06-19 09:05:00

The state on Friday will release its monthly jobs report showing whether the unemployment rate rose or fell in May. The monthly data release will also show which sectors added or shed jobs last month. Ahead of Friday’s news, our team of economy...

Fed holds steady on interest rates and stimulus, sees risks easing

2013-06-19 11:24:00

WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policymakers said Wednesday that they would continue the central bank’s controversial bond-buying stimulus program and leave short-term interest rates near zero to help boost the economic recovery, which they said was...

Jimmy Hoffa still missing after failed search at reputed burial site

2013-06-19 09:39:00

The FBI on Wednesday closed its latest search for the remains of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, ending a dig in a rural field near Detroit where investigators failed to find a trace of the man who has been missing for almost 40 years. The latest...

Muslims sue NYPD over monitoring of mosques, congregants

2013-06-19 06:00:00

New York Muslims have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Police Department over the department's surveillance of Muslims, which they called invasive and unconstitutional. The public debate over government surveillance has crescendoed over...

'Bear' helps quell New York subway melee

2013-06-19 07:43:00

NEW YORK -- Even by the standards of New York subway riders, this rumble was a doozy. Two cops, four women and a dog named Bear were involved, and while Bear suffered four broken teeth, a cut tongue and a scuffed snout, police say they and their canine...

Occupation: Home health aides 2010 Total Jobs: 1,017.7 2020 Projected Jobs: 1,723.9 Percent Change: +69.4 Median Wage, 2010: $20,560 Registered nurse Susan Eager discusses medication with a patient during a house call on March 26, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.

2013-06-19 09:14:45

Apparantly some folks will go to extreme lengths when they want it, need it and gotta have it. We're talking about burgers. Deputies say that after Joseph E. Pineda had placed his order through the drive thru speaker at a St.

2013-06-18 12:11:00

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If the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act passes, undocumented immigrants would be designated as criminals and states would be allowed to enforce their own immigration laws over and above federal laws.

2013-06-18 00:00:00