Is this the best way to fix Social Security? and other top stories.

• Is this the best way to fix Social Security?

  

  KVUE 5:32 AM. CDT April 30, 2016  There's no denying it — Social Security is unsustainable in its current form and will need to be fixed. According to the latest Social Security Trustees' Report, the program's trust funds will be completely depleted by 2034 based on the projected rate of money flowing in and out. Fortunately, there are several ways we can fix Social Security, and some of these solutions are rather popular among the American public.The most popular way to fix Social Security..

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• Cypress Semiconductor founder T.J. Rodgers steps down as CEO

  

  SAN JOSE -- T.J. Rodgers, chip-industry legend and one of the more outspoken tech leaders in Silicon Valley, is stepping down as chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor, the company he founded and has been at the helm of for more than 30 years. Call it the changing of the guard. Call it the end of an era. Call it retirement, if you want. One of the last of the old-school tech pioneers is moving on. On Thursday, Rodgers, who started Cypress in 1982, said that while he is "still passionately ..

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• What Chobani's Employee Stock Ownership Plan Means for the Middle Class?

  

  Last week Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya gave his workers a taste of capitalism by granting them a share in the value of the company. Ulukaya, who is also the CEO of the company, promised 2000 employees ten percent of the value of the entire corporation if the company goes public or is sold in the future. The potential value of this stake is quite significant since the media reported Chobani's potential estimated value as high as $ 2-3 billion. The announcement led to almost two hundre..

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• Economic growth drops in 2015; blame on export slowdown and exit of foreign funds

  

  Economic growth drops in 2015; blame on export slowdown and exit of foreign funds View(s): The Central Bank in its 2015 Annual Report released on Tuesday pinpoints the economic difficulties encountered by the country last year. They include growth slowdown, inflation pick-up, fiscal imbalance, debt commitments, dampened national savings and balance of payments deficit. The budget deficit jumped to 7.4 per cent of GDP in 2015 as against the targeted deficit..

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