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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. They also sent me a spreadsheet with the numbers for every occupational category going back to 2001.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. Plus, it turned out there was a recession in the works. That makes up the bulk of the fiscal cliff.