The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

1. BUSINESS

Wal-Mart announces a new initiative to revitalize struggling urban neighborhoods.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on Wal-Mart’s detractors and their motives.

2. HEALTH

A new government survey warns that a record number of children are overweight or “on the brink of becoming so.”

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on why obesity is not a sign of a sick society.

3. TRADE

The government of Canada moves to give the province of Quebec greater ability to practice cultural protectionism via its influence at the United Nations.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Isaac Post on the countries that are trying to use the UN to block U.S. films, songs and TV shows from international consumers.

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