She said today's FTC follow up report comes too quickly to recognize the industry's new policy of displaying parental advisory labels in all print and website ads. The Federal Trade Commission will issue a more comprehensive report this Fall. In Washington, I'm John Dimsdale for Marketplace. Oakland, California s city council is voting tonight on whether to require any new city employee who deals with the public to speak a second language, either Spanish or Mandarin. Ignacio de la Fuente, president of the Oakland City Council, says his city s Chinatown and predominently Latino Fruitvale neighborhood are major generators of tax revenue.
Critics say it s bad policy to mandate specific skills in specific second languages.
Also seldom enforced is California s English-only language only rule. And that s the top of our news for Tuesday, April 24, 2001. Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 77 points, seven tenths percent. The Nasdaq Composite index down 42 points, two percent. Details when we do the numbers.