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Trouble at the polls: Voters endure delays, lines, misinformation
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A big turnout, voting-machine breakdowns and misinformation about voter eligibility requirements snarled balloting at many of the nation's polling places Tuesday, forcing voters to wait as long as five hours to cast their ballots.
Jobs harder to find for disabled Americans
WASHINGTON - Disabled Americans who want to work face the dimmest job prospects in recent memory.
Huge surge in disability payments threatening to undermine system
WASHINGTON - The leading safety-net program for America's disabled workers is in a financial death spiral in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Is America losing patience with the unemployed?
WASHINGTON - As the nation celebrates U.S. workers this Labor Day weekend, many jobless Americans say they sense a growing indifference to their plight, and even a certain level of demonization.
GOP govs raise new complaint over health overhaul
WASHINGTON - The nation's Republican governors are raising a new complaint against the 2010 national health overhaul: They say it would drive up their Medicaid costs dramatically at a time they're already slashing their budgets to cope with debt.
Men gaining most jobs during recovery; women lose ground
The early stages of the economic recovery have taken on a decidedly masculine tone.
Report: Affordable rentals fell sharply during US downturn
Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly incomes for rent in 2009, according to a federal report delivered to Congress on Tuesday.
US hospitals to begin reporting bloodstream infections
WASHINGTON - Hoping to erase a troubling legacy of preventable infections and deaths, most U.S. hospitals on Jan. 1 will begin reporting the number of patients who contract bloodstream infections following their treatment in intensive-care units.
Overdraft protection begins
The new consumer protections against overdraft fees are now in effect.
Housing crisis hits Latinos, blacks hardest
WASHINGTON - Recent African-American and Latino home borrowers - regardless of their income - were much more likely to lose their homes to foreclosure than non-Hispanic whites during the ongoing housing crisis, according to a new study.
Social Security takes hit: more retirees, less revenue
WASHINGTON - A surge of early retirements and a decline in payroll tax revenue caused by the recession have begun to cut deeply into Social Security's surplus funding.
COBRA subsidy is ending for many
WASHINGTON - Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health-insurance company for his December payment.
Pro-consumer credit-card law starts to take effect this week
WASHINGTON — The credit-card legislation signed by President Obama in May provides consumers with their first morsel of relief on Thursday when card issuers must begin giving more notice before imposing rate increases or charging late fees.
Job-based health premiums spiraling
WASHINGTON — Premiums for job-based health insurance are up 5 percent in 2008 and have more than doubled since 1999, a growth rate that far outpaces inflation and the increase in workers' wages over the same period, according to an annual survey of employers.
Bankruptcy filings soaring
WASHINGTON — Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies had their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy Newspapers.
Hurdles keep 'morning-after pill' beyond reach of some women
WASHINGTON — When the Food and Drug Administration allowed the so-called "morning-after pill" to be sold over the counter last year, reproductive-rights advocates felt they'd cleared a major hurdle in eliminating delays that diminish the drug's effectiveness.
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