Share of Americans working as independent contractors dips, government data shows
by Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times
Jun 08, 2018
2 minutes
The share of Americans working as independent contractors has declined since 2005, according to new data out Thursday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The report, the first by the agency since 2005, contradicts other recent studies that find the American worker is becoming less bound by the traditional employee-employer relationship. But it also found that the number of independent contractors has grown even as the
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