WASHINGTON - With the prospect of outright repeal all but gone, the nation's health care overhaul is proceeding, and states that once resisted the politically divisive law now must decide how to implement its most innovative aspect: the online health insurance shopping malls known as exchanges. Beginning ...
As legal challenges to voter identification laws slowly wind their way through the courts, opponents of the controversial measures aren't just sitting around waiting for judicial relief. They're hitting the streets in a grassroots effort to make sure affected voters have the documents they'll need to ...
Continued high unemployment, the recent debt-ceiling circus and the stock-market swoon have left Americans more pessimistic about the economy than at any other time this year, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Last week, 68 percent of adults surveyed about the economy said they felt the worst ...
The medical marijuana industry is beginning to show its age. After humble California beginnings in 1996, 15 states and the District of Columbia now have legalized marijuana use for ill patients who have a doctor's recommendation. Medical marijuana has been found to help with chronic pain, nausea and ...
As if finding work weren't hard enough already, a federal agency warns that some employers are excluding jobless workers from consideration for openings. The practice has surfaced in electronic and print postings with language such as "unemployed applicants will not be considered" or "must be currently ...