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Unemployment rates fell in three-quarters of U.S. states last month, a sign that many parts of the country are experiencing modest job gains.

(Commonwealth Fund) Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last 2 years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

The same proportion is also struggling with medical bills or medical debt, compared to about half (49 percent) who lost jobs but not their health insurance.

Shackleford, who appeared agitated before the race, was able to edge the Derby winner Animal Kingdom by three-quarters of a length to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.

Demand Media has its earnings call tomorrow, and many people are no doubt eagerly awaiting what the company has to say.

After recently going public, Google rolled out its Panda update in the U.S. which seemed to leave the company in the clear for the most part, but when they launched the update globally and made more tweaks in the U.S. things worked a bit differently.

San Francisco (PRESS RELEASE – December 19, 2010) - A new, nationwide survey of small business owners and upper-middle income professionals who invest in defined benefit (DB) plans found that an overwhelming majority consider these plans a top strategy for reducing taxes and achieving a financially secure retirement.

“The survey findings confirm that defined benefit plans, once offered primarily by big business, today offer outstanding tax advantages for businesses with one-to-five employees and for self-employed people”

This report is an intraday check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high or low so far today. 52-Week High:

• SIRIUS XM Radio Inc.
  
  (Nasdaq: SIRI) high of $1.44. Shares moving 6.7% higher to the new high today as the company reported that they have added 334,727 net subs during the third quarter of 2010, a significant jump from the 102,295 added for Q309.
  
  The first three quarters of 2010 saw additions of 1,089,417, compared to a loss of 488,126 for the first three periods of 2009.

Much has been said about small employers of up to 500 workers, but little is known about the three-quarters of firms in the economy that are “nonemployers,” generating full- or part-time work for their owners.

A new study, The Nonemployer Startup Puzzle, examines basic statistics about the entry and exit of these very small firms.

SunPower Corp. said Monday an investigation is under way into whether its manufacturing operations in the Philippines made unsubstantiated accounting entries during the first three quarters of 2009.

Calling social media sites a "productivity black hole," the UK IT services group Morse said that staff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses £1.38bn every year, according to the BBC.

In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding.

And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.