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No ‘safety net’ in gig economy — Staffing quote of the week

October 13, 2015

“When we have a jobs-based social welfare system, some people get a combination of healthcare, disability and more,” NPR reports Ken Jacobs, chair of the Labor Center at University of California, Berkeley, said in a story on healthcare coverage in the gig economy. “In a world where people are operating separately from that, the safety net goes away.” Jacobs specializes in healthcare coverage and public policy.