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The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.
Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, is a voter initiative, passed in 1996, that made California the first state to legalize cannabis for medical use. California Senate Bill 420, the Medical Marijuana Program Act, was passed in 2004 with the following purpose: "(1) Clarify the scope of the application of the act and facilitate the prompt ...
Under the law, workers and their employers pay a dedicated Social Security payroll tax. Both employees and employers pay a 6.2% tax on wages up to a "taxable maximum" limit of $176,100 in 2025.
Social Security is spending more money than it is taking in, and these deficits are only expected to get worse over time, until the program completely runs out of money in about a decade.
Social Security has two other funding sources: benefit taxes on some seniors and interest income earned on money in the program's trust funds. But both of those are in danger right now. The ...
It "would prohibit federal agencies from using past marijuana use as the sole factor in determining employment suitability, qualification standards, or eligibility for security clearances and federal credentials" and "exempt marijuana from a blanket denial in security clearance statutes". [20] The bill cleared the Senate Homeland Security and ...
A new Bankrate survey found that 53% of workers expect to rely on Social Security benefits to pay their necessary expenses once they retire. Meanwhile, 73% of those polled worry that the benefits ...
[103] [104] Supporters of the bill state that "By making millionaires and billionaires pay the same rate of Social Security taxes as the rest of us, and by changing the method by which Social Security benefits are calculated, Sen. Harkin's bill would expand Social Security benefits by an average of $800 per recipient per year while also keeping ...