Tag: nontraditional workers
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Rob Peters during a trip East last summer. Rob Peters’ approach to retiring wasn’t much different from hitting the road in 1975 to help drive a college friend from New York to California. He didn’t really know where he was going. When he first laid eyes on California, he was captivated by its beauty, as…
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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…