December 27, 2018
The media apparently just love the story of everyone being a gig worker, and like Donald Trump, they are not going to let the data get in the way. The Washington Post just ran a column telling us that gig workers are everywhere.
While this person and millions of others are struggling to get by with non-standard employment, the most recent survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows there has been no increase in gig-type employment over the last decade. The proliferation of gig economy jobs is a story the media like to tell for some reason. It would be nice if they instead tried to focus on the real economy.
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