General Assembly

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  Illinois Senate OKs union-backed pension deal

  By Sara Burnett  |  May 10, 2013

  Yet lawmakers are still dickering over competing proposals for dealing with the nation’s worst state pension crisis.

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  Ill. committee passes union-backed pension plan

  By Sara Burnett  |  May 9, 2013

  Illinois has the nation’s worst state pension crisis, due largely to years of lawmakers skipping or shorting their payments to the state’s five retirement systems.

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  Conn. legislature mulls worker retirement access

  By Stephen Singer  |  May 8, 2013

  Connecticut’s private sector workers would have access to state-run retirement plans under legislation moving through the General Assembly.

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  NC House panel approves ending 'death' tax

  By Gary D. Robertson  |  February 21, 2013

  Legislation to repeal the state's estate tax will now advance to the appropriations committee.

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  Kentucky lawmakers prepare for PPACA battle

  By Roger Alford  |  January 10, 2013

  Tea Party activists say expanding Medicaid would amount to doubling down on failure.

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  Tennessee-run health exchange faces GOP roadblock

  By Erik Schelzig  |  November 12, 2012

  A Democratic lawmaker fears that a state-run exchange would undermine PPACA goals.

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  Week in Pictures | September 28, 2012

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  September 27, 2012

  Romney hopes the release of his tax returns will finally quell his detractors, smartphone charges are eating up American's income; will this impact life sales? And more violent protests in Greece cement the notion that a Grexit could be imminent. This and more in the Week in Pictures.

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  North Carolina Medicaid Personal Care Extension

  By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press  |  April 4, 2012

  Compliance problems could have disrupted the lives of 4,000 adult-care home residents.

• Deals Expected on Ind. Inheritance Tax, Tax Refund

  By Tom Davies, Associated Press  |  February 28, 2012

  The Indiana Legislature's budget leaders have drawn close to agreements on plans for phasing out the state's inheritance tax.

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  Governor: Ill. Medicaid Plan Near "Collapse"

  By Christopher Wills, Associated Press  |  February 22, 2012

  Pat Quinn says committees should tell him how to fix the state's health and public employee retirement programs.