EconomyCommentary
Banning Freelance Work
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover… Read More
LawCommentary
A federal district court announced that it will vacate the so-called joint employer rule that threatened to upend the franchise business model and to impose massive… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work or having a side hustle, an estimated 64 million… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Some 99% of American companies are small businesses, and 100% of businesses started out small, but a recently finalized rule from the Biden administration’s Labor… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Biden administration is trying to hike the threshold under which hourly-wage work regulations apply by about $25,000 per year. The proposed overtime rule threatens… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Long after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared over and the government said federal employees would return to in-person work, government building occupancy data shows that… Read More
Commentary
You know there’s a problem when the rounding unit for a federal program’s improper payments equals the annual incomes of 13,408 U.S. households. Emails obtained… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The big economic news at the end of last week was the start of a strike by the United Auto Workers union against all three major… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Department of Labor on Aug. 8 finalized an 812-page rule that contains more than 50 significant changes to the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act. Instead of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A remarkable study highlights a barely known exception to the generally accepted truism that black Americans’ poverty and unemployment rates are considerably higher than those… Read More