More on independent contractors and dumb regulations

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In a comment on yesterday’s podcast, Leah Drake wrote:
Thanks for your article. I think where it hit home for us this year is how many more 1099’s we were hit with than before on our two LLC’s from the medium to bigger corps. Like suddenly everyone else has [...]

Self-employment: what holds them back?

Here’s a recent post to the New York Times Economix blog that I found very interesting.
Catherine Rampbell, author of the post, cites a study by the liberal-leaning (according to Ms. Rampbell) Center for Economic and Policy Research, which finds that “By every measure of small-business employment, the United States has among the world’s smallest small-business [...]

Can you guess where the REAL job growth has been happening?

Last week, an article I wrote for AppGap (as a member of the Small Business Trends Expert Network) about nonemployers and the new role they might be expected to play in a 21st century economy caused a bit of a Twitter-powered stir.
Nothing that would bring down anybody’s servers or anything like that, but the article [...]

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