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Inglewood, Los Angeles, California-Nov. 29, 2021. Hagop Berberian, the owner of AllRight Automotive in Inglewood, California, says his business is doing okay despite the recession. He hesitates to increase prices on his clients. Photographed on Nov. 29, 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Inflation, supply chain, wages: Rising threats loom over small businesses

California’s small businesses waded through COVID to a rebound in consumer spending, only to face rising costs for supplies and wages.
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Uber agrees to pay $9-million California settlement on sexual assault reporting failure

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Tyra Banks tries to sell her fifth Pacific Palisades home for $7.895 million

LAKE SHASTA, CA - JUNE 30: Water levels at Lake Shasta are lower as drought conditions persist on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Lake Shasta, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Column: This proposed ballot measure would make you pay for the ag industry’s water inefficiency

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 09: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event at CES 2019 at the Aria Resort & Casino on January 9, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 11 and features about 4,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 180,000 attendees. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Square changes name to Block in nod to new businesses

HAWTHORNE, CA - MAY 01: Delivery vans leave Amazon warehouse facility in Hawthorne. Hawthorne, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Amazon accused of underreporting COVID cases contracted at work

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. The Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Google has been abusing its online dominance in online search to stifle competition and harm consumers. The litigation marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. The suit could be an opening salvo ahead of other major government antitrust actions, given ongoing investigations of major tech companies including Apple, Amazon and Facebook at both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge orders Google to hand over anti-union strategy documents in retaliation hearing

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo shows signage outside the offices of Google in San Francisco with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. Four workers fired from Google in November 2019 are planning to file charges against the company with a federal agency. They are claiming the company unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke, File)

Google workers say they were fired for following ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan

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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 18: David Aldana works on an Accessory Dwelling Unit being built on Katherine Guevara and David Guevara Rosillo's property in West Adams on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. They are participating in a new initiative called Backyard Homes, where participating homeowners receive help building a ADU in their backyard and in exchange they agree to rent the mini home to a low-income Section 8 resident. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods

LOS ANGELES, CA - November 29 2021: Lincoln Riley is announced as the new head football coach.

USC’s new hire Lincoln Riley needs a house. What’s on the market for a top football coach?

TEJON RANCH, CA AUGUST 06, 2018: The oak studded mountain tops of the Blue Ridge Range of Tejon Ranch; a small portion of the 90% of protected area of Tejon Ranch set aside for permanent preservation in exchange for environmental groups’ promise not to oppose development. At stake is the 12,000 acre proposed master planned community named Centennial on the flat grassland of the ranch off Highway 138, if approved, would bring in up to 19,333 residences, a mix of single-family, multi-family and apartment units, with a business park and open space around their periphery. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Environmental group and Tejon Ranch agree on plan to build 19,300 zero-emission homes

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Limits on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac loans raised to nearly $1 million in some markets

Beverly Hills, CA - September 08: A view of a pool with 4,000-square bedroom above with private pool at the "The One Bel Air", a 105,000-square-foot mansion by Nile Niami of Skyline Development and designed by Paul McClean (McClean Design). The One is shown by court-appointed receiver Ted Lanes, who now controls the property and is in charge of finding a buyer and paying off the lenders and other creditors, gives a tour of The One, the 105,000 square foot house on sale in Bel Air. This is apparently the largest home for sale in the United States. The developer Nial Niami "listed" it for $500 million but got into financial trouble and was foreclosed upon by Don Hankey. Photo taken in Bel Air on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Beverly Hills, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

‘The One’ could go up for auction in January. Come with $250 million

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is announcing this morning the appointment of their Chief Diversity Officer, Neil Phillips. The Association promised last spring to bring in a Chief Diversity Officer in a permanent leadership position.

Golden Globes group’s chief diversity officer says the HFPA is ready to ‘do the work’

With the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. working to come back from months of controversy, its newly hired chief diversity officer is optimistic about the group’s future.

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An international arrivals lobby is deserted at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Japan’s NHK national television said the country’s transport ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 1, requested international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in Japan until the end of December. (Miyuki Saito/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan retracts ban on new flight bookings after criticisms

Japan says it has retracted a ban on new incoming international flight bookings to defend against the new variant of the coronavirus.

Pfizer, U.S. sign $5-billion deal for 10 million treatment courses of COVID-19 pill

Thanksgiving air travel is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, TSA says

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Here’s why you have many different credit scores

There are many different scoring formulas, resulting in different credit scores. Also, the tax implications of giving away your money.
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Lenders were supposed to tell you about pandemic debt relief. What if yours didn’t?

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2015 file photo, Hello Barbie is displayed at the Mattel showroom during the North American International Toy Fair in New York. The toy records and stores conversations between kids and their dolls to improve speech-recognition technology and help its makers create more relevant automated responses for kids. Parents concerned about privacy can review and delete those conversations by visiting a website. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks

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Explaining Hollywood: Your child wants to act. What do you need to know?

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Want to quit your job but can’t right now? How to cope while you plan next steps

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The best side hustles for musicians and music lovers

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2013 file photo, a sheet of uncut $100 bills makes the way through the printing process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Associated Press reporter Ken Sweet borrowed $15,000 through a peer-to-peer loan, a rapidly expanding piece of the $3.4 trillion market for consumer debt, which includes credit cards and auto loans. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Which retirement option is better: Lump sum or monthly payout?

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - DEC. 16, 2020. A cashier helps a customer at the checkout stand in the Von's grocery store iin Long Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

Millions of workers now face a vaccination mandate. How to tell if you’re one of them

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