Who Are the Gig Workers?

We’ve written before that a growing share of Americans is making money through informal, contingent “gig work.” (See: “The Gig Economy is Alive and Growing.”) Now, Pew Research tells us who these workers are—and what motivates them. Fully 39 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds have made money in the past year either by offering their services on “labor platf…