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...Economists have long noted imperfections in how GDP - the market value of all goods and services produced in an economy - is calculated. For instance, unpaid work that might benefit society, like raising children, is not included in the calculations. Societal failures, however, often are: the cost of keeping 2 million people in prison boosts the U.S.'s GDP, as does fuel sales, despite the correlation with traffic congestion and pollution. Sustainability is also ignored - a heavily wooded country could see its GDP skyrocket if it turned over all its land to loggers. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...current $20 million deficit for this fiscal year is significantly less than the $130 million that Smith had projected in April...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced that the University’s largest school has closed half of its two-year $220 million budgetary gap at an open forum yesterday...
...addition to the $75 million worth of reductions already identified in the spring, Smith announced yesterday that FAS has achieved an additional $36 million in saving though a combination of cutbacks and increase revenue, creating what Smith referred to as a “cushion” that effectively buys the school more time to develop a comprehensive plan for the budget...
Black Mexican activists estimate the population of Afro-Mexicans at about 1 million, but there are no official figures. Earlier this year, they petitioned the National Institute of Statistics and Geography to include the Afro-Mexican population as a separate category in the next census, in 2010. Official statistics do not recognize blacks as a separate ethnic group (56 indigenous groups are officially accredited, the largest ones being the Nahuatl and the Maya, numbering more than 2 million each). As a result, Afro-Mexicans say they have been left out of institutional programs and are without a cultural identity...