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Hardworking Single Mom Hurt by State’s IC Law This is the true story of Andrea, a suddenly-single mother living west of Boston. She’s a...

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Education or Work Experience? Which is More Valuable

We estimated the salary value of work experience and of education and compared the two by combining measurements from nine respected...

Three Things to Know About the“Be My Own Boss” Bill

Title. The bill title “Be My Own Boss” resonates strongly with how voluntary self-employed individuals think of themselves. They want to...

Measuring the Salary Value of Education and Work Experience in Massachusetts

Original Research • November 22, 2019 A Regression-Model Study of Salaries in New-Hire Job Postings Sources of Value-Added. Massachusetts...

Fix the Fundamental Flaw in Labor Law

If the DOL 2020 Independent Contracting proposal is adopted into the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, three problems will remain,...

Public’s Health Hurt by Outdated Anti-Contracting Law

Mass. should lift restrictions on those seeking career flexibility Caring for tsunami of patients in the midst of a pandemic is hard...

What's the Value of Work Experience?

$180 billion dollars! That’s the estimated salary value of work experience earned in 2017 by the entire Massachusetts work force of more...

We've Located the Gig Economy!

Working for Change. For five years New Jobs has lobbied for removing the biggest legal barrier to self-employment in Massachusetts, found...

Beethoven's Business Model for the Gig Economy

In our earlier blog we saw how Mozart invented the gig economy when he realized at age 25 that he could work for himself, not for an...