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NPR covered this yesterday. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617863204/one-in-10-workers-are-independent-contractors-labor-department-says https://www.npr.org/20

NPR covered this yesterday. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617863204/one-in-10-workers-are-independent-contractors-labor-department-says https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617863204/one-in-10-workers-a... One note from that story was they missed 25M low-income workers. Jennifer Curry, a senior director at Samaschool, a San Francisco training program for low-income contract workers, estimates the government left out 25 million to 30 million freelance or contract workers who do some part-time work.

gthtjtkt 8y ago
> estimates the government left out 25 million to 30 million freelance or contract workers who do some part-time work. Aren't those exactly the type of workers that the NY Times article is talking about? 25 million is about 16% of the total workforce. So in reality the number of gig workers might have doubled to something around 20% (or higher)?