Freelance economy

Small business owner takes workforce shortages into her own hands

Posted: June 22, 2022

Although Shirley Modlin plans on giving her manufacturing business, located in Powhatan, Virginia, over to her son in the next two years, she is nowhere near retirement. In fact, she is handing over her current business so she can start a new one and open a vocational center in the rural area of her town. 

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Opinion Poll: The Role of Micro Businesses in Our Economy

Publisher: 
Association for Enterprise Opportunity, National Association for the Self-Employed, and Small Business Majority
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Date: 
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Small businesses are one of the most respected constituencies in the country, and certainly one of the most courted by policymakers in Washington. However, small businesses are also a group that legislators and the general public understand little about—the very smallest ones, especially. Those businesses are known as “micro businesses.”

Rise of the Freelance Economy

Publisher: 
Small Business Majority
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Date: 
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Entrepreneurs create more jobs than any other sector of the economy, and they are in the vanguard of an evolving 21st century economy that is shaping America’s new employment landscape—one where brick-and-mortar storefronts are being replaced by online retailers, and freelancers and contractors are the new version of the 9-to-5 office worker. 

Small businesses, freelancers need novel retirement options

Publisher: 
Small Business Majority
English
Date: 
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Recent scientific opinion polling reveals small business and freelancers need more flexible retirement options. The poll found small employers struggle to offer retirement benefits, and are increasingly turning to independent workers to meet their needs. Additionally, small employers overwhelmingly support state-administered retirement savings plans and other policies that would make it easier for them to offer retirement benefits.