Biden Backs Law That Could Put 57 Million Americans Out of Work

Democrats want as many Americans out of work and dependent on the government as possible — and one of their newest legislative pushes makes that an indisputable fact.

Although President Joe Biden has been doing his best to depress the American economy by killing thousands of union jobs and furthering America’s plunge into generational debt, it’s all a pittance compared to what the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021 could do if signed into law.

The PRO Act, passed by the House of Representatives last month and endorsed by Biden this week, could obliterate as many as 57 million jobs — that’s how many Americans freelanced in 2019, according to a survey released that year — by essentially outlawing freelance employment.

(An opinion piece in The Hill provides a more detailed explanation of why this would be the case. In short, contractors would have to be classified as employees unless their work “is performed outside the usual course of the business of the employer.” In the journalism field, for instance, this requirement “is impossible to satisfy for writers who create the product that publications publish in the usual course of their business,” Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys Caleb Trotter and Jim Manley wrote, adding that “The same goes for musicians, comedians, actors, grant writers, graphic designers and countless other professionals who have built themselves into successful microbusinesses.”)

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