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Top 10 Amazing College Finance Stats

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The University's Dilemma , from Strategy + Business, is a fascinating article covering the business model problems and risks faced by America's colleges and universities. The article includes some amazing financial stats.   Here are my top 10 amazing college finance stats: 1. I did some digging and found more.

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Poynter Series on Journalists Going Freelance

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  They recently released a series of articles on freelancing.    These include: Why journalists are leaving their full-time media jobs to go freelance : this article covers one journalist's freelance journey, which started less than a year ago.    Key quote: "I’m now nine months along this journey.

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How to Become an Independent Consultant

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Last week we had an article on U.S. Take a Look at Your Finances. So head over to their article to learn more. And if they plan to become independent consultants, a good place to start is MBO's article.  Census data showing a big uptick in the number of Americans who are self-employed.  

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Nonprofit Sector Has Lost Close to Million Jobs During the Pandemic

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  This is more workers than in the manufacturing, construction, or finance sectors. The nonprofit segment is quite large, employing more than 10% of all U.S. private sector workers.  So it's a problem that nonprofits have been hit hard by the pandemic. Other sources have the job losses greater than 1 million jobs.

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Five Major Global Economic Challenges

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The article is written by Kalin Anev Janse, secretary general of the European Stability Mechanism (the eurozone’s lender of last resort).   But this article focuses on the potential of these trends to create global strife. would have included the changing nature of work in an article like this.   Now they do.

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According to LinkedIn, Most SMBs Use Freelancers

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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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The New Migrant Workers: "Workampers", "Vanlifers" and Digital Nomads

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According to the article, many are doing this to shore up their retirement finances: millions of others are entering their golden years with alarmingly fragile finances. As the article chart below shows, many older Americans are reliant on social security for income. Fundamental changes in the U.S.