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Small Business Closure Scenarios

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.   By way of comparison, the SBA chart below shows small business closure and startup rates between 1990-2015.      On average about 8% of small businesses closed each year between 1990 and 2015 and 10% closed at the height of the Great Recession in 2009.

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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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After lodging a sexual harassment complaint against a coworker at her job in 2009, Cynthia Watson says she was shunned in the office. Six years after reporting her sexual harassment, she got a promotion and was moved to a different department in 2015. She was characterized as a troublemaker, and her concerns were ignored.

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The Number of STEM and Accounting Grads Rapidly Increasing.

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Key quote from the article: Since the Great Recession, the number of STEM majors in bachelor’s degree-and-above programs has mushroomed, going from 388,000 graduates in 2009-10 to 550,000 in 2015-16—43% growth. The article also points out the number of humanities graduates has slightly declined.

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Tracking the Digital Nomad Trend

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As you can see from the chart below, the use of the term "digital nomad" started to gain traction in the 2008-2009 time frame. The number of citations has accelerated since, with Google reporting more hits on this term this month (January 2015) than all of 2010.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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They formed the foundation the following year and opened the Els Center of Excellence in 2015 in Jupiter, Florida. In 2008, World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els and his wife Liezl Els went public with their son Ben’s autism diagnosis. Els for Autism is now global with entities in Canada, South Africa and the U.K.

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Why Companies Are Increasing Their Use of Contingent Labor

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Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The And according to their research report The State of Contingent Workforce Management 2014-2015 this growth is going to continue.

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Highly Skilled Self-Employed Driving the Growth of the Gig Economy

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think tank, released a study showing that 60 per cent of the growth in self-employment in Great Britain since 2009 has been in what they call the "privileged" sector. The Resolution Trust, a left leaning U.K. By "privileged" they mean self-employed workers who are relatively highly skilled and well paid.

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