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Casey Evertsen drove down a suburban Utah street lined with trash bins, speaking into his phone’s camera as he gave a tour of the brightly-colored truck he uses for his garbage can-cleaning business. “If you like seeing dirty stuff get cleaned and watching how cool stuff works, follow along,” he said in the video sh...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A view long held in American political philosophy is that working for oneself is a more desirable state than working for others.1 New research on entrepreneurial insights from Gallup, supported by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, finds empirical evidence to supp...

In 2022, Seattle's City Council passed an ordinance mandating a minimum earnings floor for app-based food delivery drivers in the city. The law finally went into effect in January 2024, but so far the main result has been customers deleting their delivery apps en masse, food orders plummeting, and driver pay crateri...

It was only when a regular customer called to ask why he had shut his restaurant that Chris Pyatt found out his small business had been listed as "permanently closed" on Apple Maps, leaving him with a costly problem.Apple Maps incorrectly listed a restaurant as "permanently closed"The small business owner was unawar...