After working as a foreign correspondent for 26 years in Italy and Canada, Steve Scherer found himself out of a job after he was laid off when Reuters did some cost-cutting and eliminated his position.
He had to move back to the United States after living outside for many decades, and struggled to find a new job, so he turned to the gig economy. He wrote about this in the article ‘From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver” in The Nation, and he talks to Here & Now‘s Scott Tong.
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