Joyce M. Rosenberg, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

In a July 2020 photo provided by Wolf's Ridge Brewing, owner Bob Szuter, employees Allison Randolph and Alicia Herrmann, sous chef Andy Zamagias, general manager Corey Schlosser and employee Andy Powell, from left, gather inside the restaurant's tap room in Columbus, Ohio. Szuter says he’s trying to figure out new ways to bring in revenue, focusing more on the brewery side of the business until it’s safe to have a full dining room. (Charlie Wilkerson/Wolf's Ridge Brewing via AP)

With loan money gone, restaurants at mercy of virus

by Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated PressAugust 3, 2020

NEW YORK — The check has arrived and beleaguered restaurant owners across America are looking down on their empty wallets.Government coronavirus loans in the spring helped eating establishments rehire laid-off employees and ride out the pandemic’s…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joins fellow Democrats and activists seeking better pay on July 18 as the House approved legislation to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour, at the Capitol in Washington. As of Jan. 1, there are higher minimum wages in a quarter of the states, along with new federal overtime rules.

2020 brings higher labor costs for small businesses

by Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated PressJanuary 6, 2020

FILE- In this July 5, 2018, file photo, a jockey truck passes a stack of 40-foot China Shipping containers at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. For months, the U.S. economy has shrugged off the tariffs slapped by America and China on tens of billions of dollars of each other’s goods. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Trump’s tariff hike menaces strong economy

by Paul Wiseman Associated Press, Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated Press, and Barbara Ortutay Associated PressMay 8, 2019