Caden Rosenbaum

Caden Rosenbaum

Senior Tech & Innovation Policy Analyst

caden@libertas.org

Caden Rosenbaum serves as the senior policy analyst leading the tech and innovation policy portfolio.

As an attorney with experience analyzing laws and regulations, as well as advocating for substantive reform, his work contributed to the passage of the nation’s first portable benefit law, allowing companies to offer meaningful work-related benefits to gig workers in Utah.

Caden’s diverse background in technology, innovation, and workforce policy includes many years working in Washington, DC alongside some of the country’s brightest minds at organizations like TechFreedom and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

Caden enjoys spending time with his wife, tending to his strawberry garden, and competing online in VR table tennis matches.

Caden Rosenbaum's Articles

Everything I took note of during my time at CES will change lives. Here’s why I stuck to the startups and not the showcases 
Even before she took the job as the FTC’s new Chair, Lina Khan had her sights set on big tech. But few expected the Chair to block tech companies from buying into gaming. 
The DOL’s proposed rule, reclassifying many independent contractors in the gig economy as employees, will complicate the relationship between gig workers and their customers — resulting in fewer jobs, reduced income, and less economic opportunity.
Underneath the legal issues and political problems, what is most interesting is that platforms like Uber and Lyft actually agreed to pay for statutorily mandated benefits because the cost of reclassifying workers as employees was even greater.
I started talking to my rideshare drivers as often as they would let me. Their stories, world views, and reasons for driving have been diverse and surprising. Eventually, their stories led to what is now our Future of Work project — with the addition of benefit portability to better suit a gig work lifestyle.
This week, Libertas Institute submitted comments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) opposing its Notice of Proposed Rule Making titled, “Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Standard.”