a traditional employer due to personal circumstances," according to an annual study from the gig-work marketplace Upwork. Alisha Grauso, a coleader of California Freelance Writers United, said freelancers were more likely to be disabled or older.

Many now unemployed California freelancers don't know what they will do next

Matthew Lowry, an editor for the Vox-owned University of Southern California-focused athletic site Conquest Chronicles, found out his freelance contracted got terminated in an email Monday morning. Lowry estimated he wrote 12 articles a month for the site, using the money as supplemental income on top of his high-school coaching job.

Lowry said his plans to watch USC basketball and baseball games were "out the window" now that he couldn't write about them. The hardest part for him was telling his mom thatFollowers of Companies House may have noticed in recent days that Lotus Formula 1 Ltd has cleared the debt, believed to be £30 million, which dated back to December 2010 when the then new owners were loaned the money by Snoras Bank, in order to pay off a loan from Renault that they were given to keep the team in business after it was transferred from Renault to Gerard Lopez and Eric Lux. The debt would later be passed on to Proton, the owner of the Lotus brand, in the days when the team was dallying with Dany Bahar, the then boss of Lotus. The security on the loan came in the form of a lien on all the assets and buildings that the team owned. This now