by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard. The app lets nurses and nurse aides book...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Gig Workers, Insurance
Insurance is vital for gig workers because they lack consistent employer-provided benefits. The gig economy refers to a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs. In this economy, workers are...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Benefits, Jobs
Pandemic-era childcare subsidies expired on Sept. 30, affecting over 200,000 nationwide childcare providers that depend on those funds to pay their workers. Without the support, over 70,000 centers are at risk of closure, forcing the parents of...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Career, Leadership
There are things you see in yourself that everyone else sees. There are things you see in yourself that nobody else sees. You have a shot at addressing both of these kinds of things if they get in the way. There are things you don’t see in yourself and others also...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Mentoring
How would those dead poet society (or high schoolers) know they liked poetry if Robin Williams as a teacher didn’t demand they stand on a desk? And how would Matt Damon’s Will Hunting ever believe in himself if Williams didn’t pop up again as a...
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