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Brooklyn, New York
Sara Horowitz, Founder
www.workingtoday.org
Working Today acts as an insurance- benefits manager for people who don't have one. Since 2002, about 4,000 freelancers, part-time employees, and contractors in New York have tapped into its Portable Benefits Network to pay insurance rates similar to what full-time employees at big companies do. Sara Horowitz, Working Today's founder and executive director, says that as America's employees grow more mobile, their safety nets have become more porous. Working Today establishes logical groupings of mobile workers--by geography, industry, or both--to advocate on behalf of members. It's the next union--and, some argue, the future of the labor market.
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