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Our Progress Report on the JOBS Act

Two years after President Obama signed the act into law, we lay out the good and the bad.
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Entrepreneurs and small-business advocates had hoped the , which President Obama signed into law in April 2012, would be a boon for startups needing financing. But with the Securities and Exchange Commission still hammering out the rules on equity crowdfunding--the proposed initial regulations were too costly and cumbersome for many small

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