Here's how to prepare for you financial future if you work in the gig economy

The gig economy makes up 16% of all US workers. A lack of benefits is a downside of being part of the gig economy.  People who work in the gig economy need to prepare for their financial futures.   Gig workers have freedoms that most full-timers only dream of: setting their own hours, working from home, being their own bosses. No wonder the gig economy comprised 16 percent of all workers by 2015, according to research by economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger. However, being...