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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

Success

It was acquired by L’Oréal in 2016 for $1.2 Experience is something that you can’t teach,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016. That feeling of how are you going to make payroll? Together with her husband, Kern Lima launched her company, IT Cosmetics, in 2008 out of their apartment living room in Studio City, California.

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U.S. Non-Profit Sector: Big, Growing and Mostly Comprised of Small Non-Profits

Small Business Labs

The data is for 2016 (the most recent available) and was developed in conjunction with the U.S. Between 2007 and 2016, nonprofit employment grew by nearly 17% while for-profit employment grew by less than 5%. The Johns Hopkins Non-Profit Economic Data Project recently released new data on the the non-profit sector of the economy.

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Steps to take ahead of possible DOL change in exempt salary qualifications

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Why: Final regulations issued in 2016 almost doubled the salary threshold and were thrown out by a federal court. The current weekly salary is $684 a week or $35,568 a year. Highly compensated employees may be paid at least $107,432 a year, including $684 a week. It’s likely the increase won’t be prohibitive.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

A similar McKinsey study in 2016 found that only 27% of working-age individuals in the U.S. The same is increasingly true in many fields, whether you’re freelance or on the payroll. This article appears in the January 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. defined themselves as independent workers. Yes, totally!”

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Final regs drop mandatory e-filing threshold to 10 or more information returns

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Penalties Back in 2016, the IRS had trouble figuring out how to assess the failure-to-file penalty when the e-filing threshold was 250 or more information returns and an employer filed 300 returns on paper, instead of electronically.

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The US Talent Pool: Welcome Back to a Seller’s Market

Energage

Now let’s overlay the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on ‘Layoffs’ – the monthly rate at which organizations are dropping people from their payrolls. – Bureau of Labor Statistics September 2016 – [link]. (3) (note that I plotted the unemployment rate on the right-hand axis). Layoffs: Way Down Too. Learn More. (1)

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Upwork's 2017 Freelancing in America Study

Small Business Labs

million in 2016 to 32.8 million in 2016.   Justin Fox's article provides an excellent description of the cyclical forces: What's going on here is what happens at some point in every economic expansion, as a tightening labor market pulls contract workers, freelancers and temps into steady payroll jobs.

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