Tag: labor market
Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has greatly increased the proportion of non-elderly Americans with health insurance. One justification for the ACA is that improving individuals’ access to health insurance would improve their health outcomes, mostly by increasing the probability that they have a regular source of care. Another is that increasing the availability of…
Finding a way to provide some traditional worker benefits to non-traditional workers. I was very interested in the recent settlement in two class action lawsuits against Uber, because I had been reading a proposal from the Hamilton Center at Brookings for a new class of worker – “independent worker” – that falls between “employee” and…
