Study finds that Airbnb and Uber benefit people with lower incomes

The new “sharing economy” has been talked about quite a lot over the past year or two, with many experts highlighting the many benefits of it and some claiming that it has the potential to benefit people with lower incomes especially. In order to see whether this was true or not, researchers looked at the two biggest names in the sharing economy, Airbnb and Uber, and found that they do in fact have a positive impact on local economies, especially for people with lower incomes.