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Forecasts: 2017 the Year Corporations Embrace the Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

Based on the 2017 trends forecasts we've been reading, corporations are going to actively expand their use of contingent labor in 2017. The researchers predicted that by 2017, the share of "nontraditional" workers would grow to 25% contingent, 34% gray area, and 41% traditional workers.

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

Success

A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less. The final destination in this digitized version of the classic board game is the yellow tile labeled “Retirement.” The Game of Life.

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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

Success

After I retired, my wife and family wanted me to take a predictable, boring agency job. T his article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Bruce Cameron. 54; executive coach and federal prison consultant; Dallas. It was a tough time for my wife and me. Photo by @Miverano/Twenty20.

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Multigenerational Communication & Cross-mentorship

Office Dynamics

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 there were 22 million administrative support occupation positions recorded in the United States alone! Dana (right) with Joan Burge at the 2017 Conference for Administrative Excellence. Worldwide the number rises to make the profession one of the largest groups ever!

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. Now, Akpan makes it a point to ask people if they have a Roth individual retirement account. This creep ultimately caused her family to lose the ability to stay on top of their finances.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. In her 2017 book, A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug , she writes, “There’s something liberating about realizing that owning your motherhood could give just as many benefits in public life as denying it.” Women of all ages are launching businesses.

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Sophia Bush and Nia Batts are Used to Being Underestimated

Success

After launching an inclusive salon and accompanying philanthropic organization in Detroit in 2017, their next big project (they’re two of the advisors for First Women’s Bank) combines their decades of philanthropic and entrepreneurial experience. I think being underestimated can be incredible fuel.”.

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