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"Retirement Heist" is a new book by Ellen Schultz, a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She carefully describes how companies plunder and wring profits from the defined benefit pension plans of American workers. It's required reading for union leaders engaged in bargaining with the country's biggest corporations.

In District 2-13, CWAers leafleted more than 50 Verizon Wireless retail stores with the message: "We've given you so much, but now you're breaking our hearts. If you want to 'be ours,' focus more on good jobs and less on corporate greed."

One private insurer is tackling the national shortage of primary care doctors.

The template for national health care reform has provided Massachusetts residents with more coverage, smaller out-of-pocket costs, and better access to doctors.

A new study finds that adults and children are having to forgo or skip care in families covered by high deductible health care plans.