Representing Who? The Biden Administration is looking at imposing new rules that would convert so-called gig workers at companies like Lyft and Uber into salaried employees. It is not the gig workers themselves demanding such status. They fear the loss of autonomy, but labor unions fear autonomous workers and are pushing for the reclassification of such independent souls. The situation is not unlike the effort to require a larger minimum wage for largely food service tipped workers in Washington, DC. At the behest of activists and not restaurant workers, DC voters passed Initiative 77 in 2018 requiring tipped workers receive the regular minimum wage, which will be over $16/hour. The restaurant workers targeted to receive higher guaranteed...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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