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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is taking flak for saying he’s “not worried at all” about robots displacing American workers. Yet he’s spot on: Robots will soon spark a productivity boom, leading to improved economic growth, higher wages and a higher standard of living. Just what America needs after a decade dragging along at 2 percent

The Trump administration is launching a campaign against the heroin and pain-pill epidemic now causing a staggering 52,000 overdose deaths a year. And two weeks ago, Mayor de Blasio announced the city would step up its efforts to halt the scourge. Will they succeed? Only if they break with the conventional wisdom that labels addiction

If you’re hunting for a job, hoping for a raise, or depending on a retirement account, your future hinges on President Trump’s next big undertaking, cutting taxes. And the picture looked rosy until last week. After the election, stocks soared on expectations that tax cuts would ignite an economic boom. The nonpartisan Tax Foundation was

Liberals shrieked last week when President Trump proposed cutting American funding for the United Nations by 50 percent. Trump dismisses the United Nations as a “waste of time and money.” That’s the least of it. US taxpayers bankroll the organization to the tune of $10 billion a year. Our hard-earned money perpetuates an organization that

Ignore the grandstanding on Capitol Hill and the noise coming from town-hall protests around the nation. The Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare will boost your chances of getting a job and cut your tax bill, not to mention your insurance costs. The repeal bill — called the American Health Care Act — also

If you want to start a business, the World Bank says you’d be better off in Canada than setting up shop here in the United States, where mind-numbing government regulations smother entrepreneurs. That was true, anyway, before Donald Trump became president. In his address to Congress last week, Trump announced that a “historic effort to

‘ObamaCare is collapsing,” President Trump warned the nation in his Tuesday night speech. “Action is not a choice — it is a necessity.” Democratic lawmakers sat on their hands, and after the speech falsely accused Republicans of wanting to “rip affordable health insurance away from millions.” Sorry, the Affordable Care Act is in a death

  What’s the biggest killer in hospitals? Secrecy. That’s the takeaway from the feds – specifically, the Government Accountability Office and the Food and Drug Administration. Both agencies report that hospitals are failing to disclose when medical devices injure or kill patients by spreading cancer cells throughout their bodies or infecting them with superbugs. Federal