#freelance-economy

#freelance-economy

Ari Takata-Vasquez often wakes up in her bed not knowing where she is. In May, she arose to what she believed to be the sound of an Oakland Police officer blasting a message from a cruiser outside her downtown apartment and thought to herself, "They're always doing too much." But she wasn't in Oakland. She was in New York, hearing the loudspeaker announcements from the school across from her Brooklyn apartment.

"It was just absolutely horrendous because we didn't know how long it was going to last," theatre producer Eleanor Lloyd said. "The income went from a very healthy business that we'd been running here already for a year and a half, to zero income - I mean absolutely nothing."