How Hourly and Gig Workers Are Grappling With Coronavirus

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Beth Gutelius, associate director of UIC’s Center for Urban Economic Development and senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, is interviewed in an online story from NPR’s Washington D.C. affiliate WAMU-FM that examines the potential impacts of coronavirus on hourly workers and independent contractors in the U.S.

When examining the potential impacts of coronavirus on U.S. workers, it’s a “crisis that exists at the intersection of three things: exposure, job quality and employment classification,” says Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at University of Illinois, Chicago.

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