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An employee adds decorative brass tacks to a sofa in Hickory, North Carolina. (Logan Cyrus/Bloomberg). Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues September 10 at 10:20 AM The number of people in the United States without health insurance grew by nearly two million last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday, …

Automation is not likely to eliminate millions of jobs any time soon — but the U.S. still needs vastly improved policies if Americans are to build better careers and share prosperity as technological changes occur, according to a new MIT report about the workplace. The report, which represents the initial findings of MIT’s Task Force …