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Poverty in America

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Census Bureau released the Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2017. of Americans lived in poverty in 2017, which is statistically the same as in 2016. The chart below shows how the both the official and supplemental poverty rates from 2009 to 2017. In September the U.s. It reports that 13.9%

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Why Companies Are Increasing Their Use of Contingent Labor

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The article The Contingent Workforce Management Program of 2016 provides their view of how corporate contingent labor programs will evolve over the next couple of years. Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2017

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For the list from prior years, click on the year:   2015 , 2014 , 2013 ,  2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008. This digital transformation will continue to accelerate in 2017 and SMBs who do not keep up with the pace of change will be increasingly disadvantaged. It's still too far away.  Technology.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

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And by 2009, when remote work was still, for most, a novelty, 40% of IBM’s 386,000 global employees already worked at home. In 2016, that number grew by four percentage points to 43%. In 2016, 31% were found to be doing the same. In 2016, 31% were found to be doing the same.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. She started everything from scratch.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

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Chasing Coral , 2017, directed by Jeff Orlowski. Exquisite beauty and terrible loss are threaded throughout Chasing Coral , the 2017 film that captured long stretches of coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016. Thank You for the Rain , 2017, directed by Julia Dahr. Currently available on Netflix ).

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