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Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is riddled with problems, including flaws and inefficiencies in the determination process, outdated measures of disability, work disincentives, fraud and abuse, inadequate continuing disability reviews, uncoordinated and complex interaction with other government programs, and inflexibility toward recipients’ wide range of disabilities and work capacities. These problems have contributed to skyrocketing costs and enrollment, and a near-depletion of the program’s finances in 2016. ....
Abstract: Federal law allows unions to impose wage restrictions on nearly 8 million American middle-class workers. Union contracts set both a wage floor and a wage ceiling barring unionized employers from offering pay raises as reward for exceptional work without negotiating with the union. No matter how hard most union members work, they cannot earn higher wages than specified by their contracts. The RAISE Act would lift the “seniority ceiling” on workers’ wages by allowing employers to pay individual workers more than the union contract specifies. ....