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And The Damage From AB 5 Begins
Right By the Bay | Wayne Winegarden
May 6, 2020
Often leveraging technology, the gig economy empowers individuals to use their skills (e.g. web programming skills) or their assets (e.g. cars) to earn income on their own terms. Gig economy workers can set their hours and work schedules to fit their own individual needs and schedules. Since gig economy workers will often work for multiple companies, they can also benefit from having a more diversified source of income.
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PRI Podcast: How California Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
PRI Next Round
May 4, 2020
Listen to a special presentation of PRI’s webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put on hold, or abolished to help Californians climb back up the economic ladder.
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Universal Basic Income — Just Another Welfare Program That Will Fail
Fox & Hounds | Kerry Jackson
May 5, 2020
Basic income schemes have fared no better than conventional welfare. Finland set up a pilot program in 2017, handing out about $685 a month to a “randomly selected group of 2,000 young unemployed and long-term unemployed Finns,” says the University of Helsinki.
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