United Shades of America
The Gig Economy
S5 E4:
Kamau takes a look at the state of working America today. Across the U.S., the fastest-growing category of new jobs is gig work, spurred on by tech companies and their never-ending stream of apps. In the gig economy, low and uncertain incomes have replaced benefits, health care, and all the other worker's rights the labor movement fought for.