The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a Lyft driver on suspicion of rape on Oct. 2. 37-year-old Octavio Gomez was arrested after allegedly raping a woman he drove home from a Van Nuys pub. Police said the women ordered Gomez’s Lyft after leaving a bar around 10 p.m. on Oct. 2, and when he dropped...

Stanford University, the University of Chicago and Uber Technologies, Inc. released a new study, entitled “The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers,” on Feb. 6. The study was a product of a multi-year, first-of-its-kind research project into the...