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Eliminating the Payroll Tax Cap Would Guarantee the Solvency of Social Security

By GREGORY N. HEIRES As President Barack Obama looks to strike a “grand bargain” on the deficit by July, Social Security is being targeted for cuts. But the alarm over the system’s supposed weak fiscal...

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A Call for an Economic Bill for the 21st Century

By GREGORY N. HEIRES Nearly 70 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed that everyone has the right to a job with decent wage, his message continues to ring true. The economy of the 21st...

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Shafted by NAFTA

By GREGORY N. HEIRES The scorecard is in 20 years after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement: Corporations won and workers lost. “NAFTA has done what it was intended to do, which is...

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Campaign for Paid-Sick Leave Faces Conservative Resistance

By GREGORY N. HEIRES Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to expand New York City’s paid sick leave law faces business opposition, but concerns about the benefit’s cost are overblown. In cities that have...

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