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How to Fund Social Security with the Economy We Have

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By Tyler Bond, Jonathan Schwabish, Lena Simet
| rooseveltinstitute.org
For more than 90 years, Social Security has rested on three promises: Benefits will be there when people need them; they will remain progressive, helping protect workers with lower lifetime earnings; and they will be reliable and easily accessible to people across the country. Workers contribute throughout their careers and rightly regard Social Security as something they have paid into.
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Closing the Contribution Gap: Misclassification, Pass-Throughs, and Social Security

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By Lena Simet, Suzanne Kahn, Sarah Hastings
| rooseveltinstitute.org
Much of the debate over how to close Social Security’s funding gap has focused on lifting the cap on the payroll tax, so higher earners contribute more. Less attention has been paid to another potential source of revenue: labor income that falls outside Social Security’s contribution base when workers are misclassified or when business owners take pay for their work as profit rather than wages.
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AI Runs the Global Gig Economy. Governments Must Respond.

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By Lena Simet, Anna Bacciarelli
| Inequality.org Verified
And it is scaling fast. DoorDash, which now operates in 30 countries, reported global revenue growth of 38 percent from the same period the previous year in the fourth quarter of 2025, and Uber, operational in about 70 countries, ranked ninth on Fortune’s 2025 list of the 100 fastest-growing public companies, with earnings per share growing 445 percent over three years. These companies create value by shifting costs off the company’s books and onto everyone else.
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