N.Y.'s Black Car Fund Cited as Model For Workers in Gig Economy

New York’s Black Car Fund was motoring under the radar and approaching its 20th anniversary when a National Public Radio story aired in January proclaimed the organization as the “future of benefits.” Since then, the fund — created in 1999 to provide workers’ comp benefits to drivers of New York City’s limousines and “black cars" — has found itself under a welcome microscope as industries, associations and governments struggling with how to provide benefits to so called “gig economy” workers look for guidance into...