Gig workers are everywhere. Maybe they’re driving for Lyft and Uber or prepping a room in their home to rent. But despite their prominence, the labor market contributions of gig workers are being overlooked in official employment statistics. Boston Fed researcher Mary Burke tells the Six Hundred Atlantic podcast there are shortcomings in the main survey used to measure U.S. employment. She says it might be missing as many as 7 million workers. Burke says policymakers need a better indicator of gig work numbers, or they don’t have a true picture of the labor markets: https://bit.ly/3Ljdyno
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