As President Joe Biden’s war on independent work enters its fourth year, the economic butcher’s bill is coming into grim focus. It turns out that government attacks against flexible, independent, freelance work have hammered the very people who most rely on it: women, minorities, and the marginalized.
The latest volley in Biden’s campaign is a new rule issued by the Labor Department to reclassify millions of independent workers as formal employees. The administration believes that this type of work is exploitative and that individuals would be better off in traditional employment arrangements.
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