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Gabriella Hoffman loves the outdoors. In her work as a freelance writer and media strategist, she helps advance political freedom, and she feels the most free when her work takes her outside to cover conservation, hunting, and fishing. Hoffman started her career in Washington, D.C., working a traditional 9-to-5 job that kept her mostly indoors. […]
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, now awaiting consideration in the Senate, would upend the livelihoods of countless independent contractors, freelancers, and gig workers across the country. The bill’s ABC test would allow the National Labor Relations Board to penalize businesses for hiring independent contractors. Then, PRO Act supporters hope, those businesses would hire […]
Karen Anderson is the founder of Freelancers Against AB5, the California law that has cost hundreds of thousands of independent contractors their livelihoods. In the Orange County Register, she writes that, “with House passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, the nation veered one step closer to replicating the federal equivalent of California’s […]
The COVID-19 crisis has driven more than 3 million women out of the U.S. workforce. Among the hardest hit: mothers with young children. By making it harder to work as a freelancer or independent contractor, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would further harm women. Lauren Klafke started her small business, Willow Creek […]
The state legislature just concluded what Americans for Prosperity-West Virginia State Director Jason Huffman called “the most transformational session in recent memory.” In a new op-ed in the West Virginia Record, Huffman details measures that will overhaul the state’s education system, health care access, occupational licensing, independent contracting, and more. “West Virginia parents and students […]
Most full-time jobs come with employer-provided health insurance. If this benefit is on the table, why would an individual choose to operate as an independent contractor — especially a person who lives with a chronic condition? Althea Cole, an Uber driver who battles a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis, explains in this column in the […]
Farahn Morgan has a way with words. Her talents took her from her rural hometown in southwestern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where the publicist quickly found success — and the sense of rootlessness that sometimes comes with a busy, full-time job. “I lived in a kind of abstract haze, removed from the daily challenges even […]
Jo Beth McDaniel started her career as a journalist early, freelancing for newspapers in Alabama while still a teenaged college student. After graduating, she began working for major newspapers and magazines in the Atlanta area. Over time, she discovered the newsroom environment wasn’t as glamorous as she had hoped. She describes working in an office […]
Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, a partisan goody bag of regulations intended to benefit labor unions at the expense of the rights of millions of American workers. The PRO Act would, among other things, kick millions of independent contractors out of their […]
