"While the Monster Employment Index has registered positive growth in online recruitment activity over the past two months, and demonstrated a solid rebound from the seasonal slowdown that extended beyond the year-end holidays and into January, the Index is still showing signs of a slower annual growth pace than in previous years," said Steve Pogorzelski, Group President, International at Monst...

The Iowa Insurance Division has levied a $750,000 penalty against an insurance company but has agreed to keep secret whatever triggered the fine.

Conseco Life Insurance Co. agreed on March 21 to make a "full and complete settlement" of all matters relating to a pricing methodology it used in certain life insurance policies. That marks one of the insurance division's largest such penaltie...

North Dakota's workers compensation agency should have $50,000 set aside for employee gifts, parties and training, House Republicans decided, ignoring Democratic complaints that the kitty was a "slush fund" for dubious expenses.

Rep. Frank Wald, R-Dickinson, asked to include the fund in the Legislature's two-year budget bill for the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency, which prov...

Monty Python's "Spamalot" is at the Academy of Music on Broad Street in Philadelphia. Tickets range from $28 to $87.50 at the box office. Call (215) 731-3333.

"Godspell" opens the 68th season of the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa. Tickets are $18. Call (215) 862-2041.

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey presents Stockton Student Fine Art Exhibition at the Atlantic Ci...

But the corporate version of the welfare state is not just about retirement and health care. Another, much less obvious, piece of it is the steadily increasing pay that most workers receive over the course of their careers. All else equal, a typical worker in his early 60s makes about 50 percent more than a worker in his early 30s.

This arrangement produces some enormous benefits for soci...

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Over the years, American companies have built a pretty extensive social safety net for their workers. The clearest examples of it are pensions and health insurance, which became popular du...