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Social Security Needs to Return to Its Anti-Poverty Roots
Heritage Foundation · 2016-11-03 · Commentary · 752 words
Social Security is unsustainable. It faces an $11.4 trillion deficit over the next 75 years. Yet Donald Trump wants to maintain current benefits, and Hillary Clinton wants to expand them.
Why Mortgage Principal Forgiveness Policy Is a Bad Idea
Heritage Foundation · 2016-11-03 · Commentary · 796 words
There’s nothing like a “good crisis” to give the federal government an opening to spread its tentacles further into private markets. Just look at the vast growth of federal housing programs since the ...
Propping up Disability Insurance With Social Security Bankrupts Both
Heritage Foundation · 2016-11-03 · Commentary · 808 words
One year ago Congress decided to prop up the Disability Insurance (DI) program by siphoning off about $150 billion from Social Security’s retirement fund. But since Social Security’s retirement progra...
US Overtime Rule Will Ruin Workplace Flexibility
Heritage Foundation · 2016-11-03 · Commentary · 677 words
You’ve probably heard about employers that block workers’ access to personal email accounts on work computers. But now, thanks to a new Department of Labor overtime rule, some employers are blocking w...
Red Tape on the Upswing
Heritage Foundation · 2016-11-03 · Commentary · 1,153 words
How much do federal regulations cost? That question has been debated for decades.