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Kim Porter began her career as a writer and an editor focusing on personal finance in 2010. Since then, her work has been published everywhere from Forbes Advisor to U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, ...

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New research shows that 44 million workers—or 28.2%—were self-employed at some point during a given week in 2019. 14% of workers said being an independent contractor was their primary job. Gallup ...

Sal Bademci works on a customer at his Patchogue, New York, barbershop in August 2021. (Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images) The more than 150 million workers in the United States ...