What Does It Cost To Die? Most Funeral Homes Don’t Want To Tell You
What does it cost to die in the U.S. today? It sounds like a morbid question, but it’s actually something many prudent Americans ponder as they reach middle age — and it’s also a...
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Can This Startup Really Help Freelancers Get Paid Faster?
This year, one in three U.S. workers describes themselves as a freelance worker. That’s 700,000 more workers striking out on their own since just 2014. In San Francisco, Silicon Valley’s biggest cheerleaders have embraced...
New York Designer Building Countryside Home Made Entirely of Steel Shipping Containers
The struggling housing market has caused some prospective homeowners to think outside of the box. In the case of one New York man, he’s thinking inside the box, and he’s living inside of it...
More Young Workers Are Choosing To Freelance — And They’re Pretty Happy About It
Several new surveys about freelancing in the U.S. has just been released, and to the surprise of many Americans, it seems that a freelancing job might actually be more financially prudent than a traditional...
Over Half of All Freelancers Are Determined To Stay Out of Corporate America
A new study on the state of freelancing in the U.S. revealed some interesting insights into how self-employed Americans are driving up the nation’s economy, but perhaps the most interesting discovery is that millions...
America and the Not-So-Independent Contractor
A recent ruling in California that Uber drivers are employees, and not independent contractors, highlights a problem in American employment classifications — and has some commentators calling for the creation of a new class...
Could Uber Pose a Threat to the Heating and Cooling Industry?
Across the U.S., a growing portion of the country’s 85,469 heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) businesses are choosing to offer on-demand services inspired by Uber, the ubiquitous on-demand car service. Call it the...
Protesters Tear Down Fence of British Detention Centre
Protesters in England have torn down fences at the Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre in order to express their contempt for the center’s harsh treatment of its prisoners. Cosmopolitan reports that on June 6th, hundreds of...
Will GoDaddy’s New System and Products Help Freelance Designers Better Manage Their Clients?
For years, critics have claimed that search engine optimization, or SEO, was ineffectual, dying, and doomed to soon be a lost art. Defined as the process of structuring a website to increase its ranking...
Freelancers Lend Local Voice to Upstate NY Tourism Site
A new tourism site highlighting Upstate New York is using freelancers to give its content a local touch, as well as inviting others to chime in with their advice. “Upstate New York with all...