Contract to Cheat

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how employers who had received federal stimulus money gouged workers and taxpayers
Here is one part of the series...

At one low-income housing project in North
Carolina, two-thirds of the workers hired to pour concrete, paint,
shingle roofs and hang drywall were treated as independent contractors.
Here’s what would have needed to happen with these 100 workers to pass
the federal tests:

• Each worker could come and go as he pleased, setting his own hours and schedule.
• Each
  worker owned and used his own tools and supplies and had enough of a
  line of credit with vendors to buy the necessary materials, such as HVAC
  equipment and siding.
• Each worker tackled the work as he saw fit, not heeding direction and correction from superiors.
• Each
  worker secured enough compensation to allow him to earn a living and
  cover the overhead that a self-employed person must handle.

All 100 of these workers earned from $7.25 to $20 an hour
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And no that is not an aberration..it's fairly common in the construction industry. And not just the construction industry. Especially in the south.
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