Tag: high tech

Photo of the inside of a computer

The computer revolution, unleashed in the 1970s, has not stopped. Minicomputers replaced mainframes, and IBM introduced its personal computer. Then came the Internet, laptops, robots, iPhones, and increasingly intelligent software that can drive cars and discern music preferences. Continual technological change has reshaped and regenerated the economy several times over, creating new types of jobs…

Pile of newspapers

If you don’t know this fact about Social Security, join the club. The percentage of earnings for all U.S. workers combined that is subject to the Social Security payroll tax is falling. Growing income inequality is the reason. Thirty-five years ago, Social Security taxes were levied on 90 percent of all workers’ earnings. By 2016,…