Small companies are more reluctant to hire for fear of having to pay employee insurance if they have over 50 employees, under the employer mandate.
Other factors include the inexorable trend towards more efficiency and productivity. These are forces beyond anyone's control.
Then you have huge competition for for even low-level service jobs, leaving many job seekers with no option but to choose 'gig' jobs. But you also have instances of people making more money with gig jobs than they would have in a regular job. Some people also hold gig jobs and regular jobs.
The "major reason" is if you can just ignore various labor laws it's cheaper to operate but for some reason everyone jumps to "well then we should just make what Uber and co. are already doing legal!" instead of considering enforcement.
Small companies are more reluctant to hire for fear of having to pay employee insurance if they have over 50 employees, under the employer mandate.
Other factors include the inexorable trend towards more efficiency and productivity. These are forces beyond anyone's control.
Then you have huge competition for for even low-level service jobs, leaving many job seekers with no option but to choose 'gig' jobs. But you also have instances of people making more money with gig jobs than they would have in a regular job. Some people also hold gig jobs and regular jobs.