Stop pitting workers against small businesses. Neither of them is the problem. The real problem is record-high profits for the record the largest corporations and wealthy individuals leading a new Gilded Age. I will fight back by:

• Regulating the gig economy directly regardless of whether gig workers are traditionally considered employees.

• Adopting stiffer penalties for misclassification employees as independent contractors. 

• Support the Worker Protection Act and support further measures to make it easier for workers to unionize and combat retaliation at the state level as federal agencies fail us.

• Fight for living wages, including for tipped workers.

• Provide tax incentives, subsidies, and technical support to small businesses to reduce their costs.

• Impose a graduated tax or fees on large, highly profitable corporations to fund and support local small businesses.