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The latest news on the economy, job market, real estate industry and workplace. Includes coverage of the Federal Reserve and government spending at the ... AdvertisementContinuereadingthemainstoryLatestSearchSearchClearthistextinputEuropePushesNewRulesTurningGigWorkersIntoEmployeesAproposalwithwidespreadpoliticalsupportwouldentitledriversandcouriersforcompanieslikeUbertoaminimumwageandlegalprotections.ByAdamSatarianoandElianPeltierU.S.ThreattoSqueezeRussia’sEconomyIsaTacticWithaMixedRecordSanctions,likeaimingtocutoilexports,couldalsohurtEuropeanallies.“It’salimitedtoolbox,”oneexpertsaid.ByPatriciaCohenHowTechIsHelpingPoorPeopleGetGovernmentAidEvenasthegovernmentexpandedaidprograms,manypeoplefacedbarrierstousingthem.Thatproblemisnowbeingaddressedwithappsandstreamlinedwebsites.ByJasonDeParleTheAchilles’HeelofBiden’sClimatePlan?CoalMiners.Unionsrepresentingotherworkersaffectedbyclimatelegislationhavestruckdeals,butoppositionfromcoalminershaspersisted,complicatingthepathtoenactment.ByNoamScheiberAsOmicronThreatLooms,InflationLimitsFed’sRoomtoManeuverThecentralbankhasspentyearsguardingagainsteconomicblows.Nowitisininflation-fightingmode,evenasapotentialriskemerges.ByJeannaSmialekHowtheSupplyChainCrisisUnfoldedThehighlyintricateandinterconnectedglobalsupplychainisinupheaval,andinonewayoranother,muchofthecrisiscanbetracedtotheoutbreakofCovid-19.ByLazaroGamioandPeterS.GoodmanTimesVideoBidenToutsLowUnemploymentRateDespiteEconomicAnxietyPresidentBidenpraisedNovember’sunemploymentratefallingto4.2percentandclaimedcreditforthefastestcalendar-yeardropinthejoblessrateinAmericanhistory.ByTheNewYorkTimesWhytheNovemberJobsReportIsBetterThanItLooksThenumberofjobsaddedwasbelowexpectations,butotherwisethereportshowsaneconomyontherighttrack.ByNeilIrwinThewindowtoliftthedebtlimitisnarrowing,aninfluentialthinktankwarns.TheUnitedStatescoulddefaultassoonasDec.21ifDemocratsandRepublicansfailtoextendtheTreasuryDepartment’sborrowingauthority.ByAlanRappeportandEmilyCochraneNovemberJobsReportShowsWeakHiringbutaSurgeintheLaborForceEmployersreportedadding210,000jobs,theyear’sweakestshowing,buttherewerealsobrightspots.Themixedpicturecomplicatedpolicyprospects.ByNelsonD.SchwartzandTalmonJosephSmithAdvertisementContinuereadingthemainstoryAdvertisementContinuereadingthemainstory