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...
by dankeelan | Nov 24, 2020 | Featured, Future of Work, U.S. Economy
Researchers from Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work Project and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute today released the report “Building the On-Demand Workforce,” which explores the recent rise of digital talent...
by dankeelan | Nov 17, 2020 | Future of Work, U.S. Economy
Workers in the United States have lost control of perhaps the most important aspect of their lives: their time. Getting that time back is crucial — for workers’ well-being, for democracy, and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss. It wasn’t supposed to be...
by dankeelan | Nov 10, 2020 | Finance, U.S. Economy
The market overall had a great start to the week on Monday with the S&P 500 index climbing 1.2% during the day. But shares of gig economy stocks, which benefit from temporary, short-term work, got pummeled, a reversal of how they have performed so far in...
by dankeelan | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured, Jobs, U.S. Economy
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remains high by historical standards, with the latest weekly total coming in at 751,000. While some states have seen unemployment applications recede from record highs after the coronavirus pandemic hit...
by dankeelan | Nov 3, 2020 | Benefits, U.S. Economy
The March CARES Act, which authorized the first $1,200 stimulus check and the $600 weekly unemployment bonus, assisted hundreds of millions of Americans who were unemployed or in financial need when the pandemic first took root. In August, Trump signed four executive...
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