Medicare funding shortfall may be ‘life and death’ for millions of Americans, lawmaker says. Here’s why taxes are a sticking point

[ad_1] A funding shortfall may hit Medicare’s hospital insurance fund in less than a decade. Democrats’ proposals call for raising taxes on the wealthy to solve that. Zoran Zeremski |…

Retailers are shaping a wave of laws to crack down on organized theft — here’s how they do it

[ad_1] This is the final part of a three-part series on organized retail crime. The stories examine the claims retailers make about how theft is impacting their business and the…