From single moms juggling life’s challenges for herself and her kids, to retired veterans seeking extra money or social interaction a few hours per week, or recent college graduates with daytime desk jobs hoping to save for a first home, flexibility, autonomy and freedom to craft their own working conditions maintain increasing significance for today’s American workers.
Until recently, that degree of job flexibility and autonomy was considered an uncommon perk. Increasingly, however, it represents the societal norm.
And no type of work illustrates that dynamic better than “gig jobs” like rideshare services, food delivery and other engagements that help keep families afloat. As Americans struggle to balance their children’s unexpected school changes, job modifications and other pandemic exigencies, many manage to make their “new normal” work by picking up gig work. They’re working hard and finding ways to help their families thrive in this uncertain time.
That is, unless various state lawmakers jeopardize those opportunities. At this very moment, efforts are afoot in some states to limit those options for worried Americans and their families.
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