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gig economy
Posted inMagazine
Champion the Self-Employed
Gig workers, contractors, and micro business owners are America’s fastest-growing workforce. Both parties have ignored their plight. Democrats need to offer them portable benefits and protections from monopoly corporations that crush them.
Posted inEconomy
Algorithmic Price Fixing
Radically cheaper communication makes new forms of collusion possible that ultimately squeeze consumers.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2016, Magazine
Benefits for the Rest of Us
The growing ranks of contingent workers need a new deal.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2015
Drive By
How companies like Uber work around regulations, avoid paying taxes, and shaft their workers.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015
Stop Chiseling the Adjuncts
Colleges’ mistreatment of part-time professors shortchanges students too.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
The Post-Ownership Society
How the “sharing economy” allows Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer.
