Centering on Coronavirus: The Gig Economy by The New Center published on 2020-07-09T16:22:21Z Twenty-two million people filed for unemployment in April, and many of them are gig workers who had never before been eligible for these benefits. Policy analyst Olive Morris spoke with a member of the nontraditional workforce, a restaurant worker named Katherine from central Georgia, to discuss the financial and employment hardships brought on by coronavirus. Genre News & Politics