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Is the most stable job you could have. >> reporter: hes not alone. one business study estimates there are already more than 17 million americans who no longer work for companies but sell their skills day by day, and that number could jump to 23 million in the next few years. >> yeah, freelancing is happening everywhere. >> reporter: at the freelancers union in new york, the founder, sarah horowitz, knows all about it. >> its really a phenomenon where people are hard working and theyre just putti...

Staff, just talented temporary workers hired when needed and ready to embrace a new professional mantra. >> i guess sort of the idea that the job you create for yourself is the most stable job you have. >> reporter: hes not alone. one business study estimates there are already more than 17 million americans who no longer work for companies but sell their skills day by day, and that number could jump to 23 million in the next few years. >> yeah, freelancing is happening everywhere. >> reporter: a...

Number could jump to 23 million in the next few years. >> freelancing is happening everywhere. >> reporter: at the freelance reunion in new york, the founder knows all about it. >> its really a phenomenon where people are hard working and theyre just putting together a bunch of projects and they work in fields ranging from being a doctor to a programmer to being a nanny. >> reporter: not much like a traditional union, her group helps its members take on all of the tasks that employers used to ma...

>> at the freelancers union in new york, the founder knows all about it. >> people are hard-working and theyre just putting together a bunch of projects. they work in fields ranging from doctor, to programmer to nanny. >> not much like a traditional union, her group takes on all the tasks that employers used to manage. networking for the next job, marketing skills, and the toughest part, managing health care, by combining gsd their purchasing power, she says group members get insurance for 40% l...

About it. sarah horowitz. >> people are hard-working and theyre just putting together a bunch of projects. they work in fields ranging from being a doctor to a programmer to a nanny. >> not much like a traditional union, her group takes on all the tasks that employers used to manage. networking for the next job, marketing skills, and the toughest part, managing health care. by combining their purchasing power, she says group members get insurance policy for 40% less than what could cost them ind...

Themselves for the paycheck. tom foreman with this weeks american journey. >> reporter: when this small tech company began out in kansas, one of the founders, dan carol, knew he needed virtually no permanent staff, just talented temporary workers hired when needed and ready to embrace a new professional mantra. >> i guess the idea that the job you create for yourself is the most stable job you could have. >> reporter: hes not alone. one business study estimates there are already more than 17 mil...

Very particular to the era. theyre talking about nixon, the civil rights movement, vietnam. but its pretty ease y to transpose those in the era of obama. >> i showed a clip of sammy davis kissing him. let me show you another clip of that episode with sammy davis. >> hes not a bad guy, mr. davis. i mean like hed never burn a cross on your lawn. >> but if he saw one burning, hes liable to toast a marshmallow on it. right on. >> i mean, this was the kind of stuff you never saw discussed on televisi...

Investigative correspondent michael isikoff. >> reporter: journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. >> reporter: that was the president last week announcing the justice department will institute internal guidelines to the news media. after disclosures that prosecutors, in their effort to crackdown on national security leaks, secretly seized the phone records of ap reporters and the private phone records of a fox news journalist. new questions today about the role of attorney ...

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