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  • The Last of the Freelance Embalmers
    Chicago's Joe Vitacco is a freelance embalmer. He works out of his trunk, driving from funeral home to funeral home, plying his trade. He's lasted longer than most in the business, and over a 40-year career, he's worked on 40,000 bodies. Vitacco tells his story to Matt Ozug.
  • We're still combing through all your emails about the acc.
    What You Emailed Us About Using The 'ACC'
    After we introduced a name for that annoying email practice of strategically cc-ing a manager to gain an upper hand, you responded with an avalanche of email. Here's a sample of your thoughts.
  • John Vensel is a contract attorney at the Orrick law firm in Wheeling, W.Va. He says contract work is today's economic reality.
    Freelanced: The Rise Of The Contract Workforce
    One in five workers is a contract worker, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the workforce, a shift with far-reaching implications.
  • ACC Follows NCAA In Pulling Championships From North Carolina
    The Atlantic Coast Conference decided to pull many post-season tournaments out of North Carolina this season due to a controversial state law. This move follows the NCAA decision to remove college championship games out of the state.
  • Workers share office space at Grind, a co-working company in New York City. Those who want to use Grind's facilities are vetted through a competitive application process.
    For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder
    Many freelance workers opt to work in co-working spaces, where they rent cubicles and other office resources by the day or the month. Now, some companies, in an attempt to promote a certain environment, are becoming increasingly selective about who can work in their space.
  • Two million Americans have started freelancing in the past 12 months, according to a new study from Upwork, a freelance job platform. And that has increased the proportion of the workforce that performs freelance work to 36%.
    Jobs In The Pandemic: More Are Freelance And May Stay That Way Forever
    Before the coronavirus hit, many workers chose freelance or contract jobs because they preferred the flexibility and variety it offered. But now millions are turning to freelancing out of necessity.
  • What to do about trolls in comments sections? It's part of a big conversation in tech this week.
    Tech Week That Was: Online Comments, iPad Hacks And The ACC
    Can online comments be redeemed? That conversation, plus highlights from our tech coverage on-air and online, are in our latest week in review.
  • ACC is latest conference to expand by adding Stanford, Cal and SMU
    What does the realignment of the big NCAA conferences tell us about the future of college sports? NPR's Daniel Estrin talks to Daniel Libit, a reporter at Sportico.
  • Freelance journalist and music critic FRED GOODMAN
    Freelance journalist and music critic FRED GOODMAN. He is also a former Rolling Stones and Billboard editor and current contributing editor to Microsoft Network's (MSN) Music Central. In a new book, "The Mansion on The Hill" (Times Books), Goodman chronicles how the record industry has changed rock 'n roll from the music of the counterculture to a billion dollar commercial enterprise. Goodman's past publications have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, and Spy. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:
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