Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced plans to rerun a survey of independent workers for the first time since 2005.
The gig economy has launched a healthy "future of work" panel circuit amid a roaring debate over whether apps like Uber, Postmates, and Handy—which farm their work out task by task to an army of independent contractors instead of hiring workers as employees—represent a return to the sweatshop or a new freedom to work when and how one pleases. But all sides of the debate face the same dilemma: When they propose a new policy or launch a new initiative, they have only a vague idea of how many workers it could impact. There is no current government data that specifically catalogs this group of workers.
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