The Centers for Disease Control gives good advice to stay home if you're sick. Unfortunately nearly half of private sector workers in the United States don't have a single paid sick day. For them staying home means losing pay and perhaps losing their job.

The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Empire State Building is going "green" in a model project that will save about $4.4 million a year on energy.