The next mayor of Washington, D.C. is likely to be a Marxist. In Los Angeles, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are battling it ...

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work.

I bought a home for the first time last year, and I’m committed to treating it like both my safe haven and an investment. In ...

Canada supports the first international treaty protecting platform workers. The same government is weighing a proposal that could make it difficult to legally strike in the rail and marine sectors.

The household-hire platform Taskrabbit is bringing humorto home projects. The "When Life Happens" campaign underscores how ...

Houston, we have a problem. Progressive Conservative Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston had been one of the most popular politicians in the country. Mark Carney-level popular. Regina George-level popular ...

My mother always accused men who drove fast of being simple-minded. One such man was my father. To be clear, Mom didn’t think Dad was stupid, quite the opposite in fact, but she did believe that ...

Amid a cooling job market and higher living costs, TaskRabbit is seeing renewed demand, according to CEO Ania Smith, who said the platform remains a meaningful income source. Smith cited TaskRabbit ...

Amid a cooling job market, Taskrabbit’s CEO is highlighting the platform’s strong earning potential for job seekers. Amid a slowing job market, side-hustle platforms are seeing renewed demand, with ...

When I launched TaskRabbit in 2008, I thought entrepreneurship was about persistence. The narrative in Silicon Valley was simple. If you believe in an idea strongly enough and push hard enough, ...

Leah Solivan built Taskrabbit from a recession-era idea into one of the companies that helped define the gig economy. Then she sold it to Ikea in what she describes as a tearful, unanimous board vote.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sandra Navarro, a 33-year-old who lives in Arizona and assembles furniture for customers on Taskrabbit. Business Insider verified her earnings.