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JANUARY 24, 2017

As the chart below shows, the percentage of full-time independent workers with health insurance has increased from 64% in 2013 to 83% in 2016. million more independent workers have health insurance than in 2013.  This increase is clearly due to Obamacare, which took effect in 2014. This means about 3.3

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As the Pew chart below shows, over the 10 year period from 2004 to 2013 the number of reporters fell by 17%.   The industry calls PR "earned media", which the marketing firm Hubspot explains in more detail in their blog post What is Earned Media. .   marketing trends'

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

New Data Reveals Why Freelance Writers are Smart from the Make a Living Writing blog provides an excellent summary of the information contained in the 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence report. Another article on this topic is The "New Professionalism" from the oDesk blog. But I love it wholeheartedly.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. by 2013, more than 25 percent of the content that workers see in a day will be dominated by pictures, video or audio. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.

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