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   University of California, Berkeley
Updated 12/4/2003; 1:40:19 PM

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Data Underestimates New Jobless Claims (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Labor Department, at the urging of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, is working to fix a statistical quirk that causes the government to routinely underestimate the number of newly unemployed Americans each week, a department official said on Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Business]
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Students 'have a better standard of living than ever'. Students are spending more on holidays and entertainment than ever before, a government-backed report reveals today - despite 43% of them living on "low income or poverty" budgets. The Student Income and Expenditure Survey of undergraduates in England and Wales was announced as part of the government's white paper on university funding, and was expected to form a major part of their argument for introducing top-up fees. Great Britian  [Guardian Unlimited]


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U.S. to Set Quotas on China Textile Imports (Reuters). Reuters - The Bush administration has decided to set new quotas on imports of Chinese clothing to stop a surge of shipments, U.S. Commerce Undersecretary Grant Aldonas announced on Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Business]
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Time to terminate the tariffs. Economic dispatch: Common sense, as well as international law, dictates that the US should end its steel sanctions now, says William Keegan. Great Britian [Guardian Unlimited]
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U.S. : Globalization Wal-Mart is recruiting people to convince voters to get rid of a law that limits the size of so-called "big box" stores in unincorporated areas of Contra Costa County, California. Wal-Mart pays these people at a higher hourly rate than they pay their own workers. [The Independent Media Centre]
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Ftaa Miami Protest Monday kicked off the week of negotiations and protests on the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Miami, Florida. Business leaders gathered Monday for the American Business Forum in the Hyatt Regency in downtown Miami for three days of planning how to pressure the FTAA toward preserving corporate interests.  [The Independent Media Centre]
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