Imagine if you could hire someone to do all those pesky chores that you always hate to do — pick up the dry cleaning, make the kids’ lunches, finally set up your online bill payments, asks WalletPop. The good news for those of us who aren’t Brad or Angelina is that the recession — the […]
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Founder of the Freelancers Union Sara Horowitz explains why the self-employed are a bigger factor in today’s economy in this report from CNNMoney.
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Women-owned businesses will create a disproportionate share of new jobs, according to research from Mark Wolf, who explains at Forbes.com. A remarkable trend is emerging in the U.S. job market–one that will greatly impact the workplace of tomorrow. Women are becoming the nation’s job-creation engine, starting small businesses and stimulating new jobs at a rate
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Question: How are entrepreneurs counted regarding unemployment? Economist Howard Rosen over at NPR Planet Money answers: In order to be considered unemployed a worker must be (1) available, (2) able and (3) searching for work. If your listener starts his own business and stops looking for work, he technically is not counted as unemployed; he
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When Inaki Berenguer moved from Boston to New York to start Pixable, a company that prints photo albums from Facebook pictures, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to take the chance on hiring a full-time employee. Realizing the odds for a nascent start-up staking claim in an economy that’s still rickety at best, he decided
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MakeMySummer.com launched last year as a way for students from the UK to find jobs in American summer camps. I recently had the opportunity to ask the founded Jacqueline Cole some questions about her business. What is MakeMySummer.com? MakeMySummer.com is a website where students can gain information and inspiration about how they can spend their
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Last week, one entrepreneur had the opportunity to ask President Obama a question that no doubt has been on the mind of many others. The venue was a town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, the day after the president’s State of the Union address, reports The New York Times. Thank you. My name
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Out of luck and out of jobs as the nation slowly tries to emerge from a recession, many Americans are finding in Conan O’Brien what they can’t find elsewhere — dignity in telling The Man to take a hike. WalletPop reports in O’Brien’s fight to keep his job as host of “The Tonight Show” and
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With millions of Americans out of work, some of the unemployed are taking matters into their own hands, according to a story on myFoxDC.com. Experts say the number of new inventions being pushed into the marketplace is rising. Tough economic times often lead to new inventions as people out of work have more time available
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As the Federal Reserve warns that it could be another five or six years before the job market returns to normal, determining if you’re unemployed and therefore eligible for unemployment benefits is probably going to affect many more people in the coming years. Determining whether or not you’re “unemployed” is tricky because of which jobless
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