More on independent contractors and dumb regulations
(Photo by Mat Honan, via Flickr)
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 [...]
[Podcast] Senate Panel Explores Getting Health Reform Right
Before I get to this week’s microbusiness news, a bit of housekeeping.
Raw Voice (owners of Blubrry.com, the podcast network to which the Microbusiness News Briefs belongs) and several other podcasting companies have joined with The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) on the “Consumers Attitudes on Advertising & Sponsorship in Audio and Video Podcasts” research [...]
Experian’s snap shot of self-employment in America
The folks at Experian do more than provide consumer credit reports. They have a whole suite of marketing services and consumer research services, too, as Experian-Simmons.
And it is under that latter identity that they recently released a brief and somewhat superficial but still interesting report on self-employment in America.
So, we begin with definitions. According to [...]



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