is there such a thing as a twostate solution even with land swaps there are over half a million settlers living in the west bank and in the mainly arab section of east jerusalem is the twostate concept still alive in israel extreme earnings inequality explains the social security shortfall because social security taxes are only collected on incomes below an earnings cap in 2016 the cap was 118500 which is indexed to average wage growth not the wage growth at the top who is finished paying their 2017 social security taxes probably not you trade policy must abide by the fundamental values guiding society from human dignity to sustainable development to the common good we therefore call for an ethical trade policy a framework for ethical international trade