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Professor Arun Sundararajan on the debate surrounding the sharing economy in the presidential election

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'Our economy is designed to provide a social safety net to people who have full-time jobs, but we don’t have the infrastructure to provide a similar safety net for people who do productive work but are not full time,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'Uber drivers are trying to become full time because that’s where benefits are, but classifying them as full time is retrofitting an old system. There’s a new way people are making a living, and it’s about finding a way to extend protections to more of them.'"

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