Uber/Lyft Driver with MBA Example of Broken California Dream

4,847 views · Published 5 April 2018 · 4:55 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: KPBS News · 2018 · News & Politics

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In March, the California Dream Project aired a story about the state’s shrinking middle class. The piece ended with a quote from an urbanist who worried about another trend...college-educated people relegated to working at Starbucks or driving Ubers and barely surviving. As part of our statewide collaboration covering the California Dream, KPBS’s Amita Sharma spent a day with a man who lived in his car for a month...despite having an MBA.

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