Many Workers Who Need The Most Help Right Now Won't Qualify For It

Millions of independent contractors and 'gig' workers are especially vulnerable during the coronavirus slump.

Mardella Sue Rowland is one of them. The 67-year-old widow runs an exercise class at an assisted living home in Washington state, an epicenter of the outbreak. The facility is now on lockdown and Rowland’s class has been canceled indefinitely. She is technically an independent contractor and calls herself a “1099er,” a reference to the tax form used to report contractor wages to the IRS.

from Harvard and Princeton economists found that workers in “alternative work arrangements” ― including independent contractors, freelancers and on-call workers ― rose from 10.7% of the workforce to 15.8% between 2005 and 2015.Mardella Sue Rowland, independent contractor The coronavirus lockdown has been especially hard on the original gig workers: musicians.

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