by dankeelan | Jan 26, 2021 | Benefits, Featured, Finance
You may have started gig working to raise some extra cash, to explore self-employment part-time, or to improve your work-life balance. But did you know you can also use your self-employment status to tackle the goal of securing your retirement? As a gig worker, you...
by dankeelan | Jan 19, 2021 | Age, Finance, Gig Workers
Feeling unprepared for retirement? Gig work in your senior years could be the solution. At least that’s a conclusion made by a 2020 report from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The study analyzes income replacement rates in retirement...
by dankeelan | Jan 5, 2021 | Finance, Gig Workers, Tips
The “gig economy” may sound hip, but it’s really made up of those who are self employed and work as independent contractors. It’s a group of individuals whose numbers grew by 15% in the past decade, according the Christine Benz, Morningstar’s director of personal...
by dankeelan | Dec 29, 2020 | Finance, Tips
The pandemic brought on the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Even with the promise of new vaccines, public health experts don’t expect life to go back to normal anytime soon. The economy started to recover from being shut down from June to...
by dankeelan | Dec 29, 2020 | Benefits, Featured, Finance, Gig Workers
Washington state will spend $54 million to provide one-time payments to nearly 100,000 gig and self-employed workers cut off from unemployment benefits because of the impasse over the federal COVID-19 relief and spending bill. Gov. Jay Inslee announced Sunday that the...
by dankeelan | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured, Finance, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy
The U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday proposed a pilot program to allow tech companies like Uber and Lyft to pay gig workers up to 15% of their annual compensation in equity rather than cash, a move it said was designed to reflect changes in the workforce. The...
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