The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has established a small business task force to improve its outreach to small businesses in an effort to ensure that small-business owners know how to comply with anti-discrimination laws. Read more at Business Management Daily.

The states that were most hurt in the real estate collapse over the past five years are now leading the U.S. labor market expansion. Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada added 222,100 jobs from August through December, accounting for 28 percent of the increase in U.S. employment in that period, according to Labor Department figures. Read the fully story at Bloomberg.