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A climate change storm is coming. Here’s how to prepare
  • August 23, 2024

If you can’t move to a climate haven or you prefer not to, you can aim to find someplace closer to home that minimizes the climate risks endemic to your area.

Like an approaching major hurricane whose outer spiral bands are only just beginning to hit, an approaching climate change storm has begun and will soon grow to ferocious severity—a topic I discussed in detail in my previous post, “When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?” This immense tempest is already exposing the precarious foundations upon which civilization is built—an inadequate infrastructure designed for the gentler climate of the 20th century. What should you do to prepare?

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How to help freelancers make the transition to being full-time employees
  • August 23, 2024

Freelancers who return to full-time work have some adjustments to make. Here’s how to help them thrive.

Kelly K. James had been a successful freelance writer for more than two decades. But, as a single mom with two teenage children, a growing health insurance bill, and looming college tuition, the pressures of freelancing’s ebb-and-flow income patterns were stressful. James, on a whim, decided to apply for a full-time job.

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