| March 30, 2004 | -
Treasury Secretary John Snow said that "outsourcing" of American jobs makes the American economy stronger.
| Source:
Cincinnati Enquirer
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| March 19, 2004 | -
Pennsylvania lawmakers were considering a bill that would reward state contractors for using American workers.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 17, 2004 | - The president of the World Bank was splattered with green paint by antiglobalization protesters.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 11, 2004 | - The chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers said that the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is "a good thing" that is "probably a plus for the economy in the long run."
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 21, 2003 | - Ten thousand people demonstrated in Miami against a meeting of trade officials who hope to set up a free-trade area among 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 19, 2003 | - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a study concluding that Nafta has failed to create jobs for Mexico and has hurt thousands of rural Mexican farmers. The report also said that the net effect on U.S. jobs had been "minuscule."
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 2, 2003 | -
President Bush, apparently worried about the fact that the American economy has lost almost 3 million jobs since he took office, promised to appoint a "manufacturing czar" who will watch out for blue-collar jobs.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 26, 2001 | - Thirty-two hippies were injured in Barcelona during an anti-globalization protest; the Spanish police, unlike their Swedish brethren, failed to shoot the protesters with live ammunition.
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| September 19, 2000 | - José Bové, the French
farmer who vandalized a McDonald's while protesting globalization, was sent to jail for three months.
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