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Freelancers Embrace Health Insurance

Small Business Labs

According to data from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independent study , the percentage of U.S. full-time independent workers/freelancers who report having health insurance increased from 64% in 2013 to 82% in 2015.  According to a Q1 2015 Gallup study , 88% of Americans have health insurance. This is up from 83% in 2013.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

It also laid out changes to planning rules to free-up lab space and create a route for the East West Rail line, to improve connections between Oxford and Cambridge. In both cities, developers are repurposing defunct retail and office facilities in an effort to keep up with demand.

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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

Ideas.Ted

That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. The initial set of emission reduction targets in 2015 was far too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century.