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NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, plans to end automatic profit-sharing contributions for its employees in a revamp of its benefits package that it says will give workers more chance to share in its financial success.
TRENTON, N.J. - Under pressure from the Obama administration, Republican Gov.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Even as California lawmakers passed a budget Friday to end an unprecedented 100-day impasse, their spending plan looked to be so tenuous that the next governor was expected to face a multibillion dollar deficit from the moment he or she steps into office next year.
JOB LOSSES: A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, pushing down the nation's payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Two maintenance workers who were injured while working on a water tower in South Florida have been rescued.
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