We appear in publications about innovation and labor market issues. “The Alternative: How to Build A Just Economy”, published internationally in Jan. 2024, includes a full chapter on our work.
| Date | Outlet | Article | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | May 25, 2023 | Rework The Bay collaborative | Creating an Equitable Marketplace for Flexible Work Across Alameda County | Watch |
 | May 9, 2023 | Brookings Institution | To enhance community services and empower workers, local governments are building their own gig work platforms | View |
 | Nov. 26, 2022 | Economics Explored podcast with Gene Tunny | Ep. 167/ Modern Markets for All | Listen |
 | Nov. 4, 2022 | The Workers Lab. | We’re Working With Cities To Explore How Flexible Work Can Be Quality Work | View |
 | Sep. 28, 2022 | CIGI: Center for international Governance Innovation | It’s Time to Build Public Utilities for Essential Digital Services | View |
 | Apr. 7, 2022 | Television Ontario | The Ford government thinks it can make gig-work companies behave? Dream on | View |
| Mar. 21, 2022 | The Workers Lab. | Announcing $1M investment to explore how flexible work can be quality work | View |
 | Dec. 10, 2021 | Canadian Government School of Public Service | Gig Work and the Reshaping of Modern Markets | Read Watch |
 | Oct. 1, 2021 | Unfinished Live event | Beyond Jobs: What’s the Future of Labor Platforms? | Watch |
 | Sept. 30, 2021 | Fast Company | Fostering innovation for and by workers could transform the gig economy | View |
 | Jul. 19, 2021 | Next City / Broke in Philly | A Look at CalFLEXI: Long Beach’s Experiment With Government-Run Gig Work | View |
 | Jul. 15, 2021 | Prospect Magazine | “In my dreams I’m still doing the deliveries": Inside the battle against the gig economy | View |
 | Jun. 17, 2021 | CIGI: Center for international Governance Innovation - Videos | Brief intro: "Modern Markets for All" | Watch |
| Jun. 17, 2021 | CIGI: Center for international Governance Innovation | An Emerging Opportunity for Recovery: “Modern Markets for All” | View |
 | Jun. 15, 2021 | Bloomberg Cities Network | Mayors Challenge: Announcing this year’s 50 Champion Cities | View |
 | Jun. 6, 2021 | Financial Times | Politicians should set common rules for digital markets | View |
 | Jun. 2, 2021 | Forbes | The Tech Aristocracy’s ‘Guaranteed Income,’ And A Jobs-Based Alternative | View |
 | Jun. 1, 2021 | American Compass Podcasts | Frictionless Exchange | Listen |
 | Jun. 1, 2021 | American Compass Essays | Gig workers deserve fair labor markets that private platforms cannot provide. | View |
 | Mar. 23, 2021 | The New Yorker | Should Gig Work Be Government-Run? | View |
| Mar. 19, 2021 | Brookings Institution | Wanted: A public option for finding work in the gig economy | View |
 | Oct 2, 2020 | Fox&Hounds: California Business & Politics | Racial and Gender Justice Demand Labor Market Innovation | View |
 | May 21, 2020 | Grunion Gazette (Long Beach) | Pacific Gateway, Skills4Care Provide Just-In-Time Childcare | View |
 | Apr. 10, 2020 | Press Telegram (Long Beach) | CalFLEXI connects essential workers to childcare amid coronavirus shutdown | View |
 | Mar. 31, 2020 | City of Long Beach, Joint Information Center | Pacific Gateway to Launch New ‘Work Long Beach’ Program | View |
 | Feb. 27, 2020 | RLN: Random Length News | Beyond AB5: Tackling Wider Issues Around Unstable Work | View |
 | Oct. 14, 2019 | Sounds & Words podcast | A conversation with Wingham Rowan | Listen |
 | Sept. 25, 2019 | Capitol Weekly | AB 5: Small solution, big problems | View |
| June 21, 2019 | Capitol Weekly | California can design the future of work | View |
 | May 15, 2019 | LBTV Long Beach | Pacific Gateway's new software connects gig economy workers to jobs | View |
 | Mar. 26, 2019 | Long Beach Business Journal | Pacific Gateway receives national honor | View |
| Mar. 11, 2019 | Long Beach Business Journal | Pacific Gateway Receives National Recognition | View |
 | Feb. 8, 2019 | California Workforce Association, Podcast | Elevating Irregular Employment | Listen |
 | Jan. 31, 2019 | Chronicle of Philanthropy | Don't Fight the Gig Economy | View |
 | Oct. 4, 2018 | California Economic Summit | The Gig Economy is here. What are we going to do about it? | View |
 | Sept. 13, 2018 | Kauffman Foundation Currents | The market is stacked against the low-skilled worker | View |
 | June 11, 2018 | BusinessWire | US Conference of Mayors, Wells Fargo Announce 2018 CommunityWINS Grants | View |
 | Dec. 2, 2017 | University of California TV | Elevating California's Irregular Workforce | Watch |
 | Oct. 1, 2017 | Governing Magazine | At Work, the 'Irregulars' Are Starting to Get Protection | View online version |
 | Sept. 25, 2017 | NAWB Podcast | The Rise of Irregular Employment | Listen |
 | Autumn 2017 | CIPD (UK) Work magazine | All in an hour's work | View |
 | July 18, 2017 | Annie E. Casey Foundation | WEBINAR: Gig Workers and the Public Workforce System | View |
 | July 18, 2017 | Annie E. Casey Foundation | REPORT: Beyond Gig Work: Public Markets for Irregular Employment | View |
 | July 10, 2017 | Employment & Training Reporter | Envision System's Potential to Aid Gig Workers, Project Asks | View |
 | May 10, 2016 | Council for Community and Economic Research/Labor Market Information Institute | Webinar: Making the Gig Economy a Tool for Economic Development | View |
 | May 6, 2016 | National League of Cities Newsletter | A City Response to Labor Market Changes | View |
 | Apr. 29, 2016 | Skoll World Forum | The Changing World of Work: Does the Collaborative Economy Foster Trust or Inequity? | View |
 | Apr. 4, 2016 | BBC Radio 4, Digital Human | The Future of Work | Listen |
 | Apr. 3, 2016 | 1m for Work Flexibility | Take 5: Wingham Rowan on the Flexible Labor Market | View |
 | Mar. 23, 2016 | Living Cities | A Fresh Perspective on the Future of Work | View |
 | Winter 2015/16 edition | Centre Write magazine | The Great Fragmentation: challenges for an on-demand economy | View |
 | Oct. 20, 2015 | Bloomberg CityLab conference 2015 | Creatives, Contigents, Contracts - Re - Imagining The Future Of Work | Podcast |
 | Aug 3., 2015 | Market Express (India) | An Uber labor market: do we let it happen? | View |
 | Aug. 2, 2015 | Toronto Star | “Tasker” movement championed as solution to Toronto’s precarious work problem | View |
| Jul. 31, 2015 | BBC Radio 4 | The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? | Listen |
 | Jul. 23, 2015 | Workforce Matters/National Council on Foundations | Webinar: Supporting a fragmenting workforce - a UK solution with US implications | View |
 | Jul. 6, 2015 | The EU - URBACT blog | New labour markets: how cities could lead | View |
 | Jul./Aug. 2015 | Salt Magazine | The rise and rise of the Sharing Economy | View |
 | Jun. 25, 2015 | Social Impact Generation, Canada webinar | 44% of Toronto’s workforce is now precariously employed. Do we need an official response? | Read Watch |
 | May 18, 2015 | California Economic Development webinar | Help for Gig Workers | View |
 | Apr. 16, 2015 | The Guardian | THE LONG READ: One man's quest to meld Adam Smith and Karl Marx. | View |
 | Mar. 6, 2015 | Worldpost Future of Work Conference | The rise of irregular labor | Preview |
 | Jan. 27, 2015 | Aspen Institute webinar | Sharing Economy 2.0: A model from the UK for Improving the Gig Economy for Workers | View |
| Dec. 2, 2014 | Aspen Institute event: Washington DC | The Future of Work in the Sharing Economy | View |
 | Nov. 5, 2014 | Aspen Journal of Ideas | Irregular Work for the 21st Century: a Model from Britain? | View |
| Sep. 5, 2014 | Huffington Worldpost | Startups Like Uber and Airbnb Will Continue To Disrupt Jobs. Here's What We Can Do About It | View |
 | Aug. 28, 2014 | Techonomy | Governments and Sharing: Lessons from the UK’s Beyond Jobs Project | View |
 | Apr 24, 2014 | Demos Quarterly | Workers v. Robots | View |
 | Mar. 27, 2014 | Stanford Social Innovation Review | A cliffhanger for the Sharing Economy: what will governments do? | View |
 | Feb. 17, 2014 | Long Finance | Why Can I Ship 500 Tons of Ore from China in a Few Seconds, But I Can’t Get a Babysitter Tonight? The Challenge of Local Markets | View |
 | Jan. 13, 2014 | Public World | What if public policy reflected employment changes? | View |
 | Nov. 1, 2013 | Trades Union Congress: Touchstone | Zero hours and beyond | View |
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