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Friday, February 2, 2018, 5:15pm
By Gretchen Brown

When it comes to the so-called "gig economy," ride sharing apps like Uber take a lot of the spotlight. But as Alana Semuels reported for The Atlantic, there’s another, nearly invisible group of gig workers, performing task work on the internet for extremely low wages.

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