The gig economy is booming as more Americans opt for job flexibility versus the traditionalnine-to-five. However, this rapid growth is not without resistance.Protesters and government officials are urging gig economy giants,like Uber and Doordash, to embrace employer status. Why is this such animportant initiative? Because gig workers are struggling to makeends meet, while corporations are capitalizing off of theworkforce's back.

Today, the U.S. economy is healthy—in fact, it's better thanhealthy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), totalemployment is expected to increase by 20.5 million jobs between 2010 and 2020, with 88percent of all occupations experiencing this growth. While it'seasy for the BLS to make this determination, they're unable toaccurately measure the current state of our temporary workforce.Due to great confusion over the term "gig work," estimates of howmany Americans take part in non-full time work vary greatly—not tomention how these workers are faring financially.