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Robert Reich: In the New Economy, Workers Take on All the Risk

Posted On: Aug 26, 2015

Aug. 26, 2015 | ECONOMY | alternet.org On demand and on call – in the "share" economy, the "gig" economy, or, more prosaically, the "irregular" economy – the result is the same: no predictable earnings or hours. It's the biggest change in the American workforce in over a century, and it's happening at lightning speed. It's estimated that in five years over 40 percent of the American labor force will have uncertain work; in a decade, most of us. Full story...