Joyce M. Rosenberg

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Empty reserved chairs are marked before the arrival of FBI Director James Comey, and others, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, prior to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on 'The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security and Privacy.'
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This photo combination of images provided by Stanford University show Whitfield Diffie, left, and Martin Hellman. Diffie, a former chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, and Hellman, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, have won the year's $1 million A.M. Turing Award, announced Tuesday, March 1, 2016, by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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In this June 5, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump poses for a photo after signing the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks to accept their applications. Or, they were disadvantaged by the program's terms. Data from the Paycheck Protection Program analyzed by The Associated Press show many minority owners desperate for a loan didn’t receive one until the PPP's last weeks.
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Minority owners were kept waiting while their companies were in jeopardy.
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East Side Pockets, a small restaurant near Brown University, in Providence, R.I., March 25, 2020.
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Thousands of owners are in their second week of waiting for their money.
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In this April 3, 2020, file photo, the seats and aisles are empty as seen through the window of the closed Penndot Drivers License Center in Butler, Pa.
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In this Jan. 29, 2020, file photo, Tony Bonczewski repairs a heel on a customer's shoe at his cobbler shop in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Small business owners have received some upbeat news on the economy this month. Retail sales figures released Friday showed that consumers were inspired by unseasonably warm weather to spend on their homes in January, but that overall sales growth was modest.
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The growth was modest.
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In this undated image provided by Cameron MacMillan, Jordan Davis, foreground, and Jason Wilson and Chad Wright, background work at the Better Collective Tennessee, RotoGrinders.com office in downtown Nashville.
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Many businesses are happy to let staffers have some fun amid major sporting events as long as they get their tasks done.
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Jo Trizila, top right, President and CEO of Trizcom Public Relations, conducts a meeting with her staff Ann Littmann, right, Noel Hampton, bottom left, and Hayley Swinton at their office in Dallas on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The recent flu outbreak can really impact small businesses with small staffs and hurt a company's productivity. Some owners, like Trizila, are trying to mitigate the damage so the flu will not become a nightmare when they're trying to get clients' work done.
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In this July 11, 2012, file photo, John Arensmeyer, CEO of the advocacy group Small Business Majority, poses for a portrait at the Small Business Majority office in Washington. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, known as the SECURE Act, won final congressional approval in the Senate last month and was signed into law by President Donald Trump. One of the bill's features makes it easier for small businesses to band together to offer 401(k) and other retirement plans.“ Most small businesses simply don’t have the funds or staff to offer and manage retirement plans,” said Arensmeyer.
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In this Oct. 28, 2017 file photo, the storefront window of a portrait studio is lit up along a downtown street at dusk in Lumberton, N.C. With a little over one month to go in 2019, small business owners should think about purchases or investments that make good business sense and will give them a break on their taxes.
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In this Thursday, Nov. 14 photo, Annie Venditti, vice president of operations at clothing retailer American Rhino, stands for a photograph in the store, in Faneuil Hall Marketplace, in Boston. At the age of 23, Venditti was learning about the complexities of building and liquor laws. The company did the smart thing, and got a consultant to guide them.
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