Professor Lamar Pierce tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that young people have watched their parents deal with the pressures and anxiety of job insecurity at a time when companies show little in the way of loyalty to their workers. They see no reason to believe that dynamic will ever change, so they’re looking for a diversity of income sources. “Millennials are coming into the job market with that expectation,” Pierce said.

Link to article: Piecing together a living through the Gig Economy

9/6/15