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Hiring a Freelancer? Here’s What That Means for Your Taxes

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Meanwhile, states like Arkansas, Missouri, New Jersey, and Vermont — as well as the District of Columbia — have established their own thresholds. Freelancers and gig workers don’t have the same benefits as traditional employees, but the laws governing the gig economy are changing. Almost every state in the U.S.

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. In a handful of states, if you have three (3) or more employees you must carry workers’ compensation insurance. The Size of Your Business Might Matter. The Type of Employees You Have Might Matter.

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Advances in Biometrics & Privacy

Austin Startup

But as a staunch privacy advocate, I’ve been waiting for the general public to start paying attention to what various corporations and government agencies are doing with their data and to start clamoring for restrictions on who has the data and how it is used. And it keeps not happening. Repeatedly, it just doesn’t seem to happen.

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Business Ethics And Social Responsibility

YoungUpstarts

Forbes notes some of the reasons why Seventh Generation, a Burlington, Vermont-based company that produces and distributes green products, was recognized as the best company for the environment. Another example of combining business ethics and social responsibility is by focusing on benefiting the environment.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Advances in Identity Technology and Privacy

Austin Startup

As a staunch privacy advocates, we’ve been waiting for the general public to start paying attention to what data various companies and government agencies are collecting and what they are doing with that data and to start clamoring for restrictions on who has the data and how it is used. And it keeps not happening. I was amazed?—?both

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont. Join our panel of experts in media law, health care communications and digital/social media as we explore what this heightened government scrutiny may mean for PR practitioners, marketers and media strategists.

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