Small Businesses See Modest Job Growth, Midsize Businesses Down: ReportSmall Businesses See Modest Job Growth, Midsize Businesses Down: Report

<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/s/adp-report-79000-jobs-lost-update/funds/life-lessons-one-zero-one/10424326.html">The Street</a>, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0412433.htm">CNN Money</a>

Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

July 2, 2008

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Midsize businesses shed 35,000 jobs, while small businesses gained 7,000, according to the ADP National Employment Report for June.All told, the overall drop for private jobs hit 79,000, said payroll processor Automatic Data Processing (ADP), whose monthly report is based on 392,000 businesses with about 24 million workers on payrolls. Businesses related to the housing market were hit especially hard, and even the services sector, which hasn't seen a decline since November 2002, slashed 3,000 jobs from May to June. Despite small businesses' gain, the increase is the weakest since November 2002.The Street, CNN Money

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Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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