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Micro Employers May Be Turning The Corner

Dec 7th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

I don’t mean to get anybody’s hopes up but …
There was a lot of that in Washington last week, wasn’t there? Particularly Democrats from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, who saw those jobs numbers come down the pike on Friday and were dying to crow about President Obama’s “successful” economic policies but didn’t dare.
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Self-Employment As Middle Class Lifejacket

Oct 20th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

There are any number of things you can say about nonemployers and I’ve probably said most of them. But here’s something I found out recently, thanks to a presentation by Kristen Lewis of the American Human Development Project.

I learned that, besides all the other things nonemployers do or could do, they help middle class families get a little less squeezed.

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