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Article: IMPACT Protests cost small businesses and agriculture, but variables make it hard to nail down a figure
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- May 3, 2006
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As workers returned to their jobs and students to classes,
economists and school officials said Tuesday that one day was not
enough time for the "Day Without Immigrants" to do more than send a
political message about the contributions of foreign-born labor in
California.
While scores of small businesses and the state's agricultural
industries took a hit Monday as tens of thousands of mostly Latino
workers attended massive protest marches, few experts even tried to
tally the action's financial impact, saying there were too many
unknown variables.
Did employees use sick or vacation time to take the day off or
just forgo a day of pay? Would employers just postpone, rather than
cancel certain ...