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Updated 2/2/2004; 1:34:37 PM

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Bush under fire for widening deficit (AFP). AFP - President George W. Bush faces an uphill battle, both economically and politically, to make his tax cuts permanent as the budget is tipping toward a half-trillion-dollar deficit, analysts said. [Yahoo! News - Business]
3:50:41 PM    comment []

EU Says Europe Falling Behind on Economy  European Union nations are dragging their heels in their ambitious drive to become the world's most competitive economy by the end of the decade, the European Commission said Wednesday. [Miami Herald: Business]
11:40:03 AM    comment []

Newest job is how to get one The Seattle job market tightened last month, forcing more workers out of the labor force, on to unemployment benefits and into career counseling classrooms. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business]
11:08:59 AM    comment []

China's Migrant Workers Ask for Little and Receive Nothing. Laborers at one project who are supposed to earn $4.87 a day haven't been paid in a year. The flood of job seekers makes exploitation easy. [Los Angeles Times World News]
10:57:56 AM    comment []

Plan to end India Aids jobs bias. Legal experts in India are to recommend outlawing discrimination against HIV-positive people in private sector jobs, the BBC learns. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:56:47 AM    comment []

Nigerian fuel strike called off. Trade union leaders cancel a general strike after the government says it will withdraw a fuel tax. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:56:33 AM    comment []

Strike hits French rail commuters. A strike by railway workers in France brings disruption to commuter train services around Paris. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:56:09 AM    comment []

Britain goes deeper into the red. Chancellor Gordon Brown faces a headache as UK public borrowing hits its highest monthly level since records began. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:55:26 AM    comment []

Can You Count on Your Pension? (The Motley Fool). The Motley Fool - We all look forward to the day when we can deposit our duffs on retirement's proverbial three-legged stool: Social Security, a pension plan, and personal savings. [Yahoo! News - Business]
10:50:10 AM    comment []

Bush Offers $500 Million Plan for Job Training (Reuters). Reuters - President Bush on Wednesday called for $500 million in new spending on education and job-training programs as he sought to highlight themes from his State of the Union address and tried to lift confidence in his handling of the economy. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
10:49:13 AM    comment []


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