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| Jun 25, 2026 | As Social Security faces trust fund depletion, some Washington lawmakers call for taxing high earners | The trust fund Social Security relies on to help pay retirement benefits may run out in the fourth quarter of 2032, when 78% of benefits will be payable, according to a recent report.
Yet high earners may contribute payroll taxes toward the... |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Million-dollar earners have already stopped paying into Social Security for 2026 | The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500 in 2026.
Some high earners have already stopped paying into the program for the year.
Here’s why some experts say it’s time to lift the cap and require the wealthy to pay more into the p... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Private equity exits rise as returns fall | The number of global private equity exits rose 5.4% last year to 3,149, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The total value of those deals declined 21.2% year over year to $412.1 billion, the data showed.
The dynamic ... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Cuba’s president says no current talks with the US following Trump’s threats | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ, DÁNICA COTO and MILEXSY DURÁN, Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Monday that his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government, a ... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Hyundai immigration raid could leave other businesses reassessing their workforces | The immigration raid on a Hyundai plant last week could leave other companies scrambling to make changes, experts told CNBC.
Businesses are likely reassessing their workforces and working to train more American workers, as the Trump adminis... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Trump’s claim that low tariffs caused the Great Depression is false, economist says: Here’s what really happened | On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a new round of global tariffs, instituting a minimum 10% levy on goods imported from countries around the world, which he said he hopes will strengthen the U.S. economy and remedy what he calls... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Million-dollar wage earners have already stopped paying into Social Security for 2025 | In 2025, workers pay Social Security payroll taxes up to a $176,100 cap.
High earners with $1 million in gross annual wage income have already stopped paying into the program as of March 6.
Most workers can expect to see Social Security pay... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | National Politics | Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide | Arizona employers can pay their tipped workers $3 less hourly than other workers. Under current rates, that means tipped workers’ base pay is $11.35 an hour.
Voters will decide whether to approve a measure backed by state Republicans and th... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Labor Department set to release May jobs report. Here's what to look for. | The U.S. job market is starting to resemble what it looked like before the pandemic upended work and life around the globe.
With the Department of Labor set to release May employment data on Friday, analysts forecast that employers added 18... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Health | Private equity’s growing footprint in home health care draws scrutiny | Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Help at Home employed nearly 800 caregivers scattered across every county in Alabama, helping 1,100 older and disabled clients with activities such as bathing, housework and meal ... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Complications spiked 25% in hospitals bought by private equity | There’s ample evidence that private equity buyouts in health care drive up costs. A new study shows quality declines, too.
Hospitals acquired by private equity saw a 25% uptick in adverse events compared with controls, according to a new st... |
| Sep 12, 2023 | I'm an American who lived in Ireland for 4 years. Here are 5 things I liked better about life in Europe. | Travel I'm an American who lived in Ireland for 4 years. Here are 5 things I liked better about life in Europe.
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| Sep 2, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Mark Weisbrot: Labor faces a partisan divide on most important issues | By Mark Weisbrot
“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, tens of millions struggle to put food on the table, find affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable prescription drugs, affordable childcare and affordable ... |
| Aug 22, 2023 | The hospice industry needs major reforms. It should start with apologies | “How has the clinical work you do affected you personally?” We’d come to the Q&A part of the evening in an historic church in eastern Pennsylvania. I had traveled there at the request of a local hospice to talk about my perspective as a... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Democrats want to make the minimum wage $17 an hour and give nearly 28 million workers a raise | Sen. Bernie Sanders Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, alongside other progressives, is again trying to raise the federal minimum wage.
He's introducing legislation to bring the federal minimum to $17 by ... |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Dean Baker: President Biden has given us the greatest economy ever! | By Dean Baker
I would not ordinarily talk this way. I just want to make the point that we can say with absolute certainty that if Donald Trump were president and we had the exact economy we now have, we know he would proclaim the GREATEST E... |
| Jun 24, 2023 | The case for printing $2 trillion to save the planet | The biggest idea to come out of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, which was held in Paris on Thursday and Friday, is that the International Monetary Fund should simply create trillions of dollars — and then hand it out to every co... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | 5 Brilliant Benefits To Look For In A New Job | Aoibhinn Mc Bride, Tech Times 18 April 2023, 12:04 pm
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While a competitive salary is still the key aspect driver for attracting new talent and the most common reason people look for a new job, health and wellbeing a... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | The US is one of the only countries that doesn't guarantee paid vacation — here are 25 places where workers get a full month off | Some states, like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont, legally require companies provide PTO to their workers. Kena Betancur/Getty Images
The US is one of the only countries in the world that does not guarantee... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs | Now laid-off employees are paying the price
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In an attempt to explain why the company had laid off 12,000 employees, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, said executives decided to slash jobs after a &qu... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Tech CEOs screwed up | Redeem now
In an attempt to explain why the company had laid off 12,000 employees, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, said executives decided to slash jobs after a "rigorous review" of Google's internal s... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Paid sick leave is good for workers — and U.S. public health | The fight to expand access to paid sick leave continues even after President Biden decided not to include more than one day of paid sick leave in the recently “settled” contract for rail workers.
Last week, more than 70 members of Congress ... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | Anxious About The Economy? ‘Career Cushioning’ May Be The Answer | You may be anxious about the economy, but career cushioning can help.getty |
| Nov 23, 2022 | If the Biden administration doesn't step in to block the $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger, it will be devastating for shoppers and grocery-store workers — while the rich shareholders will get richer | Kroger and Albertsons announced a merger. Brandon Bell/Getty Images and Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast.
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| Oct 20, 2022 | Quiet quitting: Why leaders should address it as a trust problem | Image: Azat Valeev/Adobe Stock
As if a tough hiring market, challenges with when and where employees work, and persistent wage inflation were not enough, the new phenomenon of “quiet quitting” has entered the vernacular. The idea is simple:... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Number of self-employed women surges as childcare plunges after COVID: reports | More On: working moms
Opera conductor returns to work 72 hours after childbirth to fight ‘sexist stigma’ Hot mamas learn to make cold cash on OnlyFans Child-free employees are sick of picking up the slack for parent peers Secret pregnancies... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | The economy is creaking, but likely isn't in a recession | Investors are jittery. Home sales are plummeting. Squeezed by food and gas prices, Americans are driving less and spending more to put food on the table, constraining their budgets. Yet despite this unsightly economic picture, the U.S. like... |
| Mar 20, 2022 | First Mover Asia: Singapore-Based Gaming Company Razer Struggles to Pivot; Bitcoin Declines After a Positive Week | Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:
Prices: Bitcoin holds over $41,000, despite a slight weekend drop; ether and most other major cryptos follow a similar pattern.
Insights: The one-time, would-be "Apple of the Gaming World" fa... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Why Is the IMF So Afraid of Cryptocurrency?
The IMF’s real purpose | It seems increasingly clear that opposition to cryptocurrency can be considered an official position of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and we can expect anti-crypto restrictions to become a common condition of its loans to economies... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Whistleblowers can protect crypto and DeFi | Alexis Ronickher Contributor
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| Jan 12, 2022 | Used cars, housing, and clothing costs jump as inflation hits 40-year high of 7% | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Prices for used cars and trucks, housing, and even clothing and home goods jumped in December as the overa... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Those Who Don't Understand Section 230 Are Doomed To Repeal It | It remains somewhat surprising to me how many people who have ideas for Section 230 reforms clearly do not understand the law and how it works. Perhaps much more surprising is that, when experts try to highlight where their analysis has gon... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Those Who Don't Understand Section 230 Are Doomed To Repeal It | It remains somewhat surprising to me how many people who have ideas for Section 230 reforms clearly do not understand the law and how it works. Perhaps much more surprising is that, when experts try to highlight where their analysis has gon... |
| Dec 11, 2021 | California could get an $18 minimum wage. Experts outline how it could get rid of worker shortages and cause a ‘ripple effect’ throughout the country. | , a progressive activist and entrepreneur, filed the ballot initiative. Joe Sanberg
Activists are fighting for an $US18 ($AU25) minimum wage in California — more than double the federal rate.
The boost may help get those fed up with pay dec... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | 7 policies in Biden’s spending plan aimed at health equity | WASHINGTON — Democrats have made big promises to tackle racial inequities across society, including in health care, since protests for racial justice swept the nation in 2020.
Until recently, it wasn’t clear how either lawmakers or the Bide... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | The Revolving Door Is Good for Bitcoin
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Play book | Brian Brooks went from a law firm to a bank to a mortgage company to a crypto exchange to America’s top banking regulatory agency to a crypto exchange again. He’s on the market again – but which way will it be, public sector or private?
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| Sep 3, 2021 | The arguments for firing Jay Powell are tiresome and stupid | Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's term is coming to an end.
Some progressives are pushing President Joe Biden not to renominate Powell for a second term.
But Powell has been an adept, pro-worker Fed chair and all the reasons to oppos... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | FACT SHEET: The Build Back Better Agenda Will Provide Greater Tax Fairness for Small Businesses | Since day one in office, President Biden has focused on providing America's small businesses with the tools and resources they need to reopen, rehire, and rebuild. To date, the Biden-Harris Administration has delivered more than $300 billio... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars? | As COVID-19 spread through federal prisons, the Justice Department began a novel experiment: 4,500 prisoners were approved for home confinement with GPS ankle monitors.
But what would happen afterwards. If they rebuilt their lives and follo... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars? | A pregnant woman is pictured over images of Raquel Esquivel and her family: Esquivel with her fiance (top left, bottom far right) and with her children (top right) Ricky Gonzalez; Raquel Esquivel; Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Imag... |
| Jul 31, 2021 | If the minimum wage were $24 an hour and tied to worker productivity, a long-held trickle-down myth might actually come true. | Activists participate in a ‘Wage Strike’ demonstration in May in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast.
In his latest piece, he discusses the... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Colorado state government, major employers like Walmart look to lower health insurance costs | Next year, public employees throughout Colorado, as well as people who work for big businesses like Walmart and Comcast, may be part of a test to find out if it’s possible to lower health care costs without government intervention.
State go... |
| May 17, 2021 | In race for vaccines, US neighbors see chance to play Washington and Beijing against each other | Workers unload the first batch of Sinovac vaccines in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, March 28, 2021. MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images
Latin America has been hit hard by COVID-19, and leaders there are rushing to vaccinate their populations... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Giving Justice-Involved Candidates an Opportunity to Thrive – The ARC Fair Chance Hiring Series, Powered by Michelson 20MM | April was Second Chance Month, a time to focus on affording the opportunity for individuals returning home from incarceration to fully reintegrate into society and the need to address the harmful consequences of mass incarceration. Fair Cha... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | As Nina Turner runs for Congress in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, her local roots take center stage | Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner. David McNew/Getty Images
Nina Turner is running for Congress in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District.
Turner, a Cleveland native, represented parts of the district as a state senator.
If elected to Congress... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Joe Manchin voted against including a $15 minimum wage provision in the relief bill, even though 250,000 West Virginians would benefit from the increase | WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 14: Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, speaks during a news conference with a bipartisan group of lawmakers as they announce a proposal for a Covid-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill, on Monday, Decemb... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | How Should We Think about Full Employment in the Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate? | I want to thank Jason Furman and David Laibson for inviting me to join your economics class. I often found it difficult in introductory economics to connect the abstract concepts in the textbooks to the real-world issues I cared about. So t... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Small Business Owners: What You Need To Know About The New PPP Rules | What would LA be without tacos? Thousands of food businesses led by immigrants can benefit from new ... [+] PPP rules. Camino Financial |
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| Jan 5, 2021 | The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforce | The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforcegetty |
| Nov 10, 2020 | From Policy to Impact: A Fair Shot at Employment, Professional Licensing, and Educational Excellence for Justice-Impacted People |
Last year, we at Michelson 20MM launched our Smart Justice Initiative with a mission of advancing prosperity through higher educational attainment for the more than 70 million justice-impacted people in the United States. Postsecondary ed... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | 26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America | Protesters gather in Harlem to protest the recent death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in New York City. David 'Dee' Delgado/Getty Images
The United States saw nationwide protests for weeks in 2020 over the death of George Floyd in police ... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Environmental Racism In The US: Insidious, Unchecked & Made Worse By Covid-19 | 2
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From unleashing toxic pollutants in neighborhoods populated by people of color to building oil pipelines on indigenous lands, environmental racism has a long and disturbing history in the United States. D... |
| Apr 25, 2020 | Colorado Latinos grapple with increased risk of coronavirus infections | Crystal Rodriguez fell to her knees.
Her mother and brother joined her, and together they prayed in the hospital parking lot, facing the building. Inside, Rodriguez’s father, Sergio, lay in an intensive care unit.
Nurses had warned the Rodr... |
| Mar 14, 2020 | The economic crisis from the coronavirus could lead to 'disaster socialism' that briefly extends basic social benefits other countries already have | Evan Vucci/AP
President Donald Trump, right, listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, March 13, 2020, in ... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | Paid sick leave could help prevent the spread of coronavirus - but 18 states have barred local governments from implementing it | Advertisement
Paid sick leave has generated huge attention over the past week as more cases of coronavirus are diagnosed in the US.
But 25% of American workers - or 32 million people - don't have access to paid sick leave from their employe... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Мы работаем меньше, чем люди в странах с развитой экономикой | Продолжение истории о том, почему четырёхдневная рабочая неделя — это вредная сказка, особенно для России.
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| Aug 16, 2018 | A shocking number of US workers get no paid time off | Originally Published by:
Conde Nast has finally outgrown using child models Americans are 'sleepwalking' through their career Nine-year-old already has a career as a tattoo artist
It’s all work and not enough paid time off.
The US is the on... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says Non-US Countries Have Unique Opportunity To Reform Intellectual Property | For well over a decade, we’ve noted that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz has been one of the many, many economists who are skeptical of the benefits of our current patent system, noting that it appears to do a lot more harm than ... |
| Oct 11, 2017 | Column:: Bad news: Your 401(k) won’t give you a decent retirement | For nearly 40 years now, we’ve been hearing that 401(k) plans are the key to a comfortable retirement. By giving a tax break to workers contributing part of their paychecks to their retirement nest eggs, the plans were designed to supplemen... |
| Aug 14, 2017 | 82 Years of Social Security Now Threatened by Trump Policies | This is an opinion piece by Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law. In the 82 years since, Social Security has transformed this nation an... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | How These Major Employers Are Creating Opportunities for Ex-Felon Job Seekers | Ex-felons get a raw deal when it comes to employment. Despite the fact that approximately 70 million (nearly one in three) Americans have a criminal record, it can present a difficult barrier to overcome in a job search. According to one st... |
| Jun 14, 2016 | Hillary Clinton's Paperback Memoir Deletes Inconvenient Support Of TPP That Was In The Hard Cover Version | I’ve seen plenty of nonfiction books that add some amount of content in the process from the original hard cover release to the eventual paperback release. But apparently Hillary Clinton went the other direction and conveniently excised all... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | It's Official: US International Trade Commission Predicts Negligible Economic Benefits From TPP | Techdirt has written hundreds of stories about TPP over the years. So many of those have revealed troubling aspects of the deal that it’s hard to single out the worst. But there can be no doubt that one of the most extraordinary facts is th... |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Most Americans are totally screwed when it comes to saving for retirement | Originally Published by:
When American companies began switching from traditional pensions to self-directed 401(k)-like plans in the 1980s and 1990s, it was supposed to lead to a golden age of retirement security. No longer would workers be... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Nobody knows if candidates’ drug-price plans will actually work | WASHINGTON — Here’s a dirty little secret as prescription drug costs emerge as a major political issue: Nobody really knows what will work.
Presidential candidates are rolling out proposals and lawmakers are holding hearings to show they’re... |
| Jul 4, 2015 | So About That Whole Tech-Eating-Jobs Thing | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| May 27, 2015 | Don't Like Minimum Wage Increases? Be Mad at the Top Earners | Los Angeles has become the first city of its size to approve a minimum wage increase from $9 an hour to $15 an hour by 2020. Since the federal minimum wage was instituted in 1938, it has increased 22 times, but the increases haven’t always ... |
| May 6, 2015 | Study: Mismarketing Of Patented Drugs Has Cost Society At Least $380 Billion | Here on Techdirt we’ve written many times about the problematic nature of drug patents. They are harmful both directly, in terms of the price distortions they cause and seek to spread to new markets, and indirectly, through the lobbying tha... |
| Mar 26, 2015 | Unimpressed, UK's Parliamentary Committee For Business Calls For 'Evidence-Based Approach' To TAFTA/TTIP | Given the magnitude of the effect that TAFTA/TTIP could have on the economies and daily life of both the US and EU, it is surprising that there has not been more analysis of its likely impact. In particular, you would have thought that the ... |
| Feb 9, 2015 | Why We Should Rename TAFTA/TTIP As The 'Atlantic Car Trade Agreement' | When TAFTA/TTIP was first announced, David Cameron said it would “have a greater impact than all the other trade deals on the table put together.” We were repeatedly assured that it would boost both the US and EU economies significantly. Bu... |
| Jul 13, 2014 | Silicon Valley’s Dilemma Over Credentials | Silicon Valley has been heavily derided by the media these past few months, on everything from Google executives forcing senior citizens out of their homes and founders accused of sexually harassing women to startups stealing reservations a... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Why TAFTA/TTIP Isn't Worth It Economically, And How We Can Do Much Better | As recent posts on Techdirt have made clear, resistance to TAFTA/TTIP is growing on many fronts. In countering that, supporters of the negotiations unfailingly cite the “unique opportunities” or “huge benefits” of the deal. There’s no denyi... |
| May 26, 2014 | Государственный бизнес, Путин прав, санкции по иранскому образцу, что такое советский ВВП, момент истины для экономики США | Анатолий Гавриленко:
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Из отчетов журналистов по первому дню работы питерского формула я понял, что «Алексей Улюкаев констатировал постепенно сформировавшееся предубеждение в органах власти против принятия любых решений... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | Krugman Gets Informed, Changes His Tune On TPP | Late last year, we were dismayed by a Paul Krugman opinion piece in the NY Times in which he judged the TPP based on how it might impact free trade, saying he didn’t understand why people were so upset about it. After lots of people called ... |
| Dec 13, 2013 | Paul Krugman's Ignorant Assessment Of TPP Shows What A Nefarious Proposal It Is | Let me start this post off by saying that I know that Paul Krugman seems to inspire… a certain kind of extreme reaction from some people, whether they support him or not. I don’t fully know why this is. I think he’s got some interesting ins... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | Граждане, пополняйте госбюджет, скороспелый прекариат перебрал кредитов, зачистка финансового рынка, опять революция и КПСС? | Максим Авербух:
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Две новости, пришедшие в один день и достаточно полно характеризующие российскую власть:
1. Минфин поддерживает идею удержания НДФЛ с покупателей квартир по заниженной цене.
2. Минфин РФ пока не включит Кипр и Лю... |
| May 2, 2013 | Our Patent System Incentivizes Drug Companies To Pay Doctors Kickbacks | You may have seen the news recently that the US government has kicked off a lawsuit against Novartis, the pharmaceutical giant, for paying kickbacks to doctors to get them to prescribe certain drugs. |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Falling health care costs come at a price | (MoneyWatch) Health care costs continue to rise. But health care employment? Not necessarily. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, the industry, which has traditionally offered many well-paying jobs for those without extensive educ... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Политика против длинных денег, на что идут налоги, крепкий рубль хуже ВТО, вредные советы от МВФ | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «Алор», президент Российского биржевого союза:
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С большим интересом прочитал новости о продолжении строительства МФЦ в России. 29 января у г-на Дмитрия Мед... |
| Oct 18, 2012 | Germany Is Likely Concerned that a Greek Euro Exit Could Set an Example | Redeem now
A NYT piece that discussed negotiations between Greece and the "troika" over its budget deficit should have pointed out the risk to Germany and the other core euro zone from a Greek exit from the euro zone. The austerit... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | Ohio 1 of 6 states to show no significant activity on health insurance exchange | And if signs coming from Gov. John Kasich’s administration give any indication toward the future (and they certainly do), Ohioans should get used to a period of inactivity on the exchange.
Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor also heads the state’s Departm... |
| Apr 4, 2008 | Housing Crisis Hits Renters, Too: Report | As Congress debates solutions to the mortgage meltdown and ever more homeowners find themselves facing foreclosure, a new report suggests that policymakers and industry regulators need to move beyond what some are calling a “one-size-fits-a... |
| Service workers have less stable job schedules — and it impacts their kids' health, sleep, and behavior | Parents’ unstable work schedules are associated with increases in children’s behavioral problems, school absences, and sleep problems. Westend61
The children of parents with unstable work schedules sleep worse, their grades suffer, and they... |
| American workers would make more than $20 an hour if minimum wage kept pace with productivity, an economist says | Minimum wage kept up with productivity growth until 1968, says economist Dean Baker. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images
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| As Social Security turns 90, what will its future hold? | The Social Security system celebrated its 90th birthday this week. In the wake of this milestone, several policy analysts and news outlets offered their thoughts on the program’s past, present and future.
The Committee for a Responsible Fed... |
| Ohio 1 of 6 states to show no significant activity on health insurance exchange | Ohio is one of six states that has shown “no significant activity” toward creating a health insurance exchange, an online insurance-buying marketplace that was one of the key pieces of last year’s federal health reform law.
Ohio’s inactivit... |
| U.S. is worst among developed nations for worker benefits | The U.S. ranks last among industrialized countries relative to employee benefits like healthcare, paid leave, vacation days, unemployment and retirement, according to Zenefits.
States can raise their standards from federal minimums. |
| 3 ways the US could avoid sinking into a recession as inflation slows, according to one of the first economists to call the 2008 housing crash | Economist Dean Baker Kevin G. Hall/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Economists have said a recession looks increasingly likely next year as consumer prices have continued to rise in recent months.
But the decreasing costs of gas and ot... |
| In race for vaccines, US neighbors see chance to play Washington and Beijing against each other | Workers unload the first batch of Sinovac vaccines in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, March 28, 2021. MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images
Latin America has been hit hard by COVID-19, and leaders there are rushing to vaccinate their populations... |
| California farms have more than half a million acres unplanted this year due to drought, as food prices continue to climb | Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images
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California farms have left more than a half-million acres unplanted this year.
Drought and resulting water-supply regulations are largely to blame.
The decline in planting coincides with heightened inf... |
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| Why U.S. vacation policies are so much worse than Europe’s | The United States is the only advanced economy that does not guarantee paid time off.
The European Union Working Time Directive, which was passed in the early 1990s, requires at least 20 working days of paid vacation in all EU countries.
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| New relief deal doesn’t mandate paid sick or family leave for Covid-19 | Employers will no longer be required to offer two weeks of paid leave to workers who become sick with Covid-19, or up to 12 weeks of family leave to people who can’t work due to child-care needs, per the legislative text of the $900 billion... |
| 9 European countries where workers get more than a month of paid vacation | The U.S. stands out in a bad way when it comes to paid time off laws, and as for vacations, it’s the second-worst around the world for offering the fewest days.
Nationally, the average American gets 10 vacation days — all public holidays li... |
| What happens when women are denied abortions? Economic distress, research shows. | Women who are denied abortions are more likely to suffer from financial problems and rely on government aid programs like food stamps and welfare, according to a study that tracked about 1,000 women who sought abortions over a span of sever... |
| Why millionaires may have already hit their Social Security payroll tax limit for 2024 | In 2024, up to $168,600 in earnings are subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
Millionaires are set to hit that threshold in March and won’t pay into the program for the rest of the year.
Here’s why some lawmakers and high-net-worth indi... |
| Biden vows to protect Social Security, Medicare and ‘make the wealthy pay their fair share,’ in State of the Union | The winner of November’s presidential contest may determine the future of Social Security and Medicare as the programs face funding issues.
In the State of the Union address on Thursday, President Joe Biden promised to protect benefits by r... |
| Here’s what you need to know about Lael Brainard, Biden’s pick for vice chair at the Fed | President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Lael Brainard as Fed vice chair is thought to be in part the work of progressives, who say she’ll emphasize climate change and equitability.
In tapping Brainard, Biden nominates the 59-year-old to ... |