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The dawning of 2011 marks a milestone: The first of the nation's 76 million baby boomers turn 65, the traditional retirement age. New polls, however, show that for a range of reasons few boomers of this age are ready to retire. In fact, some don't ever expect to stop working.

In an effort to boost worker skills to better match the needs of employers, President Barack Obama today unveiled Skills For America's Future, a new initiative to increase workforce development, worker training and job placement.

CEOs at some large public companies earn more per day than their employees earn over the course of an entire year. We took a look at some of the country's most well-known companies and calculated just how many workers the CEO's annual paycheck could afford to hire.

Maybe working around all that bling for so many years blinded her. But by the time one long-time worker at a Long Island City, NY, jewelry store was caught, she was being accused of stealing close to 500 pounds of gold. How, you ask? Employee Teresa Tambunting allegedly waltzed out of the store...

Worker's in Peru can't be fired for being drunk on the job, the country's top court has ruled. The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that janitor Pablo Cayo must be given his job back by the municipality of Chorrillos after being fired for being intoxicated at work, Reuters reports. One of the...