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Survey: 1 in 3 Americans are Freelancers

Small Business Labs

The Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk released a study showing that 34% of the American workforce freelances in some form.   Back in 2010 in partnership with Intuit we released a forecast saying by 2020 40% of the U.S. The study breaks these folks into 5 segments: "Independent Contractors" (40%, or 21.1

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