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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

  Examples include personal trainers, wealth managers, dog walkers, mow and blow services, sports, music and education coaches for kids, and many others.     These are niche businesses that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained consumers. 

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Other popular professions include education and training (8 percent), sales and marketing (7 percent), and healthcare and sciences (8 percent). . The top three professions are consulting, coaching, and research (17 percent), creative services (16 percent) and information technology (13 percent).

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JULY 15, 2019

The reason, according to the article, is this expansion has been weaker and its benefits distributed far more unevenly than in previous growth cycles, Key article quote: This is a “two-tier recovery,” said Matthew Mish, head of credit strategy at the investment bank UBS.   As the Post article points out, "Half of U.S.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Key quote from their article on the study : " more than half (52%) of small business hiring managers say that the number of freelancers and contractors in their company will increase in the next 5 years while 38% say the number will stay the same." A recent survey by LinkedIn found that 70% of U.S.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

.  Economic growth has led to a jobs recovery for even the hardest hit segment of workers, those with less than a high school education. The chart below, from the New York Times article  Workers Hardest Hit by Recession Are Joining in Recovery , shows this group's unemployment rate is down to 5.1%.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Emsi's article  STEM Majors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors. The article also points out the number of humanities graduates has slightly declined.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

interesting conversation with Skillshare's CEO Matt Cooper on the Trending in Education podcast.    Skillshare is an online education platform with over 5 million users and over 20,000 classes taught by a network of 6,000 teachers across dozens of fields. 

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

.  The data comes from EMSI's Talent Attraction Scorecard , which looks at six metrics by county: job growth, skilled job growth, net migration, annual openings for skilled workers (per capita), educational attainment growth (based on adults with associate degrees and above), and a broad measure of regional competitiveness.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Recent research by future of work expert Lynda Gratton  suggests due to longer life spans the traditional life stages - education, work and retirement - no longer work.   The chart below, from her MIT Sloan Review article The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives , illustrates this shift. 

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MARCH 28, 2017

.  Key quote from the study abstract: Since 1980, the probability that a college-educated man was employed in a cognitive/high-wage occupation fell. We've covered the growing education gap between women and men in the past  and the gap appears to be increasing. At the same time, men continue to not do well. 

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MAY 20, 2019

The Axios article The American Baby Bust covers the latest fertility data from the U.S. " As the article chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2018 there were 59 births per 1,000 women ages 15-34.  Centers for Disease Control. Key quote: "The U.S. This leads to fewer adults wanting them.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

  But as the article chart below shows, ride sharing use is common across most age, income and educational cohorts. About half of Americans ages 18 to 29 (51%) say they have used a ride-hailing service, while 24% of those ages 50 and older say they have.  Key quote: " a mere 4% of the U.S.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

And several recent articles have extensive data illustrating this.    The New York Time's article We're Making it Too Hard for Millennials points out: "The most educated generation in history is on track to becoming less prosperous, at least financially, than its predecessors."

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MAY 24, 2016

  The article focuses on a retired educator who has put together a portfolio of activities to meet his goal of “balancing a life of leisure with a life of purpose.”. The article suggests more people will choose this path. As we reported last week, record numbers of Americans are working past 65.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

." Key quote on earning Badges: Badges will be earned based on the same standards around the world – through world-class learning, fulfilling required experiences and making a contribution to the broader community, such as coaching colleagues, presenting to clients or publishing an article that educates others about the acquired skill.

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MAY 31, 2016

s Taxi Industry  is one of many articles chronicling how much share ridesharing companies have taken from taxis. Other articles portray the users of on-demand services as only used by the rich and well-educated.  .  Fortune's Uber and Lyft Have Absolutely Gutted L.A.’s

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APRIL 17, 2017

  London's Edspace targets firms and individuals working in education. Not in the article but long one of our favorite niche coworking chains is Satellite Workspace Centers. .  All the spaces listed are interesting, but a couple jumped out at us: Chicago's Coalition focuses on the energy and cleantech industries. 

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

.  A non-profit with the mission of "a free world-class education for anyone anywhere," they've produced over 3400 short instructional videos anyone can access. They   According to a Forbes article on Khan : their videos have been viewed more than 200 million times.

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APRIL 16, 2012

  I haven't been able to get a copy of the Zinnov study, but both the GigaOm article and an article on the study in Venture Beat quote Zinnov as saying work/life balance is the key reason women are choosing to freelance online and why they outnumber men.   Education is another potential cause.  

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The article goes on to discuss "job polarization", which is the idea that the growing use of computers and automation has resulted in job growth being concentrated in both the highest- and lowest-paid occupations, while jobs in the middle have declined. 

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MAY 29, 2012

Foreign Policy magazine has an article on the phenomenon of Chinese companies employing white Americans on a part-time basis.   According to the article, they are looking for white American males "to sit near the front of an office or to join in on meetings because it apparently adds a level of sophistication."

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JULY 9, 2012

 According the article "boys are falling behind not just in the U.S., " The reason for the educational decline of boys? " Prior to the Atlantic article The End of Men , we used to get a lot of push back on this trend.  For example, close to 60% of today's college students are women.

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JULY 20, 2015

According to a recent Mashable article  Yuccies are: In a nutshell, a slice of Generation Y, borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the transcendent power of education, and infected by the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue our dreams; we should profit from them. All Slashies should read this.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

But even though I'm familiar with the labor situation in Europe, I was still stunned by the data in the New York Times article Young, Educated and Jobless in France. We spend a lot time studying jobs and workforce data. For younger Europeans (and even older Europeans), this means traditional jobs are near impossible to find.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Interesting article on Bersin by Deloitte's site on corporate training.  As the chart below (from the article) shows, after a steep decline during the recession U.S.   Workforce education and skills have atrophied. .   Workforce education and skills have atrophied.

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MARCH 17, 2015

  The quick summary of this chart is SMBs want more help, advice and education from their accountants. As we mentioned last week in an article on accountants growing role as advisors to small business, we're forecasting that accountants will increasingly expand their roles as consultants and advisors.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It's all thanks to a powerful combination of female education, access to contraceptives and abortion, and increased child survival. Girls are Getting Better Education. Read the article for details on the facts. The other 4 good facts are: The Developed and Developing Worlds are Gone. People are Much Healthier.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

 Key quote from a Tech Crunch article on the talk : The tools and platforms listed above have given way to a “personal revolution” that’s delivered unprecedented productivity and reach to small businesses and entrepreneurs. It means you have to have the right education to work at [the tech giants].

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MARCH 21, 2016

But the quick summary is stagnant wages, increasing costs for housing, healthcare and education and the hollowing out of middle wage jobs.  We cover the reasons for this shift in detail in our Economic Uncertainty section.   These factors are making people very nervous and even scared about the future.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

The chart below is from the Pew Research article The Growing Economic Clout of the College Educated. .  College clearly is not for everyone and there are a lot of good alternatives. But the data is also clear on the advantages of being a college graduate.

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JULY 19, 2011

Brookings has an interesting article on the long term earnings trends for women.    Over the last couple of decades women have passed men in most measures of educational achievement.    This advantage in education is a key reaon we expect women's wages to continue to grow relative to men. 

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APRIL 2, 2012

The Contingent Workforce and Public Decision Making is an article in the Spring issue of Public Sector Digest.  It suggests rethinking a range of laws and policies including employment rules, zoning, K12 education and health care due to the shift to the contingent workforce. workers with new policies and approaches. .

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AUGUST 24, 2015

The Internet has lit up with reactions to the New York Times article on Amazon's bruising, data-driven, "purposeful Darwinism" culture. This not surprising given how harsh the article makes Amazon sound - people crying at their desks, sick people callously culled, lots of backstabbing, etc. Key quote: Six million Americans.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

As the chart below (from the article) shows, low wage workers have been getting older and better educated.    According to another New York Times article - Life on $7.25   One only has to visit a fast food store to see this. Back in the 80's and 90's the majority of fast food workers were teens.

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  The article also points out minimum wage job holders are older and better educated than in the past. The article chart below illustrates this. Most low wage jobs - and especially low part-time jobs - have few, if any, benefits.

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JUNE 21, 2012

As we noted in a prior article - Academic Freelancer Woes - we think we're at the beginnings of a fundamental shift in higher education.  And the Internet is just starting to impact higher education.  And the Internet is just starting to impact higher education.

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MAY 22, 2012

The PhD Now Comes with Food Stamps is an interesting article on the struggles of adjunct university faculty.  According to the article, the average adjunct is paid $2500 per course taught, but it can be as low as $600. All of this adds up to situation like the one described in article - a women with a Ph.D

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