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How America became a nation of freelancers | Teresa Wiltz

Feb 7th, 2012 | By | Category: News

The economy is recovering, unemployment is down. But the old jobs are gone: benefit-free contract working is the new normal Missing from all the chatter about jobs, jobs, jobs is this: we’re becoming a nation of freelancers. The US is no longer an industrial-based society where you can count on having a job for life and a sparkly new watch at your retirement party