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Active duty and some reserve members of the U. S. Armed Forces deserve our nation's greatest respect and honor, and one of the minor things our country offers in return for their service are a few benefits when it comes to income taxes.

At one end of the minimum wage battle, you'll find Marissa Greene in Randallstown, Maryland, for whom an increase would mean not having to eat nearly every meal at the fast-food place where she works, because groceries are a luxury.

Volunteer firefighters and the departments that rely on them will be excluded from the employment requirements under the Affordable Care Act, the Treasury Department announced on Friday, Nov. 10.

By law, companies are solely responsible for paying unemployment insurance. The costs, therefore, cannot be passed onto workers. This means that a company has limited ability to control those costs.

The latest National Employment Report shows that private-sector jobs increased by 238,000 from November to December, on a seasonally adjusted basis. The report is prepared monthly by payroll and benefits provider ADP, which collects the information from the actual payroll data of businesses who use its payroll services.

The Affordable Care Act is law, but what does it really mean for the cost of health insurance for Americans who will be purchasing coverage on the new state healthcare exchanges?

In a possible sign of better things to come, California saw solid gains in job vacancies advertised online in December, according to the latest statistics from the Conference Board.

In tandem with broader economic indicators, the Randstad US Employee Confidence Index, which tracks U.S. workers' perspectives around jobs and the economy each month, rose 0.7 points to 55.2 in December 2013. The Randstad Employment Tracker was conducted online by Harris Interactive between December 3 and 5 on behalf of Randstad and included 1,104 employed U.S. adults ages 18 and older.