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3 Steps to Take Before Going Into Business for Yourself

Success

Next, you’ll need to consider your current company benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans. If that’s not an option, you’ll need to get on a health insurance plan for self-employed individuals. These include unavoidable costs such as housing, food, transportation and insurance. Create a plan.

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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. There are workers in this sector who are trained nurses, while others lack any kind of certification but offer critical support to patients. Workers don’t always receive adequate training or high-quality equipment.

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Ep 230: Yolanda Hunte on Changing How the World Sees Executive Assistants

Go Burrows

Yolanda has also served as Co-Chair of the Women’s Leadership Network, a Guardian Life Insurance company employee resource group. Teaching and training other EAs about tips that can help others in their EA journeys. In a hybrid context, arranging and running lunch and learn events.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most pediatricians were opposed to breastfeeding and the accepted thinking at the time was that the baby was ready at six weeks to begin taking solid foods! The answer to this question is outside of the physicians training and expertise. One should ask “Why does this patient have a sleep problem?

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Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment

Mad in America

In March of 2024, I paid a visit to the hospital once again, this time as a person trained in peer support and someone who had become an advocate. It was a typical tray, the food was not half bad, and even though I had a loss of appetite from receiving the news about the severity of the infection, I still managed to eat a little.

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This is what a middle class budget in Chicago looks like compared to Madrid, Spain

Work Life

grocery food prices were 1% higher in February 2024 compared with a year ago, according to the U.S. Meanwhile, Europeans are seeing a drop in food prices from 3.9% Upper-middle class includes all managers, and the skilled working class includes all occupations that require a few years of vocational training. In the U.S.,

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Labor Day is the time to call for employee ownership and better worker protections

Work Life

Independent workers like ride-share drivers , who are often misclassified and lack worker protections, shoulder the costs of doing their jobs, like buying, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle. The most fundamental risk workers take on when they accept any job is if it will pay enough to meet basic needs like food and housing.