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U.S. Taxpayers Fund More Low-wage Jobs than McDonald’s and Wal-Mart

By GREGORY N. HEIRES The U.S. government underwrites more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart and McDonald’s employ together in the United States. Federal tax dollars fund nearly 2 million workers who earn...

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Expand–Don’t Cut–Social Security

By GREGORY N. HEIRES With a growing acceptance that millions of Americans will face a retirement crisis, the deficit hawks’ call for cutting Social Security is losing credibility. As the federal...

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A Quarter Century Without a Raise

By GREGORY N. HEIRES Wouldn’t it be just lovely to go nearly a quarter century without a raise? Astonishingly, that’s what restaurant servers–whose wage floor is set by the federal government–face....

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