No health insurance? Prepare to pay the penalty

• Your workplace health insurance costs $1,200 more

  Employees are shelling out 28% more for workplace health benefits than just three years ago.

  Most probably realize their monthly premiums are going up because they see more taken out of their paychecks. Workers are seeing their premiums rise year after year, going up by 19% on average since 2011, according to a report issued Thursday by Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health.

  This is happening though the overall growth in health MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 6, 2014 9:56 AM ET
  Posted in: co-insurance, co-pays, deductibles, health care, health insurance, healthcare, national business group on health, nbgh, out-of-pocket, out-of-pocket costs, premiums, towers watson, workplace

• These weather maps show why February hiring was weak

  Cold weather can freeze the job market.

  Snowstorms have become the excuse du jour for weak job growth this winter. After months of stronger job growth, hiring was weak in both December and January, and now economists are expecting more mediocre numbers for February.

  Economists surveyed by CNNMoney expect only 150,000 jobs were added during the month. The Labor Department plans to release the official numbers on Friday.

  It may seem odd that a MORE

  Annalyn Kurtz - Mar 5, 2014 10:32 AM ET

• Housing inequality: The tale of two communities

  Nowhere is the divide between rich and poor more apparent than in the backyard.

  Home values in the top 10% wealthiest communities are worth more than six times that in the bottom 40%, a new survey has found.

  Put another way, these rich communities hold nearly 52% of housing wealth, compared to only 8% owned by the lower rungs, according to The Demand Institute, which assessed 2,200 largest communities across the nation. MORE

  Tami Luhby - Feb 28, 2014 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: affluent, demand institute, home values, housing, housing inequality, housing wealth, income inequality, poor, wealth, wealth inequality

• America's most unequal cities

  And the most unequal city in America is… Atlanta! Where the rich earn nearly 19 times the poor.

  A new study from the Brookings Institute analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau and ranked America's 50 largest cities. It compared the household income of the richest in each city -- defined as the 95%th percentile -- with that of the poorest, or the bottom 20% of households.

  But the reason Atlanta is so MORE

  Steve Hargreaves - Feb 21, 2014 12:40 PM ET

• Want to see a doctor? Be prepared to wait!

  Need to see a doctor, but it's not an emergency? You might have to wait a few weeks, though it depends on where you live.

  Dallas residents may be able to get an appointment to see a family physician in five days, on average, but Bostonians might have to flip two months ahead on the calendar to mark the first available appointment for new patients.

  Merritt Hawkins, a physician recruitment firm, surveyed MORE

  Tami Luhby - Feb 17, 2014 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: appointments, cardiology, dermatology, doctor, family practice, merritt hawkins, ob/gyn, orthopedic surgery, wait times