Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Information Economy (Sunday, 11/1/98)
If you want information about the new information economy, including the Internet, here's a good place to start. The Information Economy web site comes to you from Professor Hal Varian, a dean at the University of California, Berkeley. It includes dozens of links to sites that deal with all aspects of the new global economy in which information provides a major portion of the value.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CollegeQuest (Monday, 11/2/98)
From the well-known Peterson guides, here's CollegeQuest with information about all of the colleges and universities in the United States, as well as a database containing information on more than 800,000 scholarships and awards..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Disgruntled (Tuesday, 11/3/98)
Disgruntled.com covers the odd, bizarre, unpleasant, often hard-to-believe aspects of the work world. Some stories are serious, some are hilarious. The person responsible for this popular web site now has a paperback book as well.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CEO Express (Wednesday, 11/4/98)
CEO Express is a major information resource for busy executives, but, even if you're not an executive, you're free to take a look, and may find this rich site helpful.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Family Business (Thursday, 11/5/98)
Baylor University estimates that family businesses account for about half of the American Gross Domestic Product as well as about half of the wages paid in the U.S. Their Institute for Family Business is intended to help keep these businesses vital for the benefit of their family owners and the country.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune's Global 500 (Friday, 11/6/98)
If you've been wondering which companies are the largest in the world, here's the place to find out. It's Fortune magazine's Global 500.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worldwatch Institute (Saturday, 11/7/98)
Worldwatch Institute is a Washington, D. C-based think tank that studies the effects of economic activity on the world environment. They claim that the Industrial Revolution put us on a course that is unsustainable and that changes must occur if the world is to avoid catastrophe. Among other things, the Institute monitors environmental changes and presents a description of key trends in their new book, State of the World 1999.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Kiplinger Magazine (Sunday, 11/8/98)
The Kiplinger Magazine has been providing financial information and advice for many years. Now, there is an informative and useful web site as well..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Estate and Gift Tax Law (Monday, 11/9/98)
The Legal Information Institute from Cornell University Law School has some information for you if you're not planning to take it with you, or if you're simply feeling generous. Here's what you need to know about Estate and Gift Tax Law.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wealth of Nations (Tuesday, 11/10/98)
If, even after more than 200 years, you STILL haven't gotten around to reading Adam Smith's book that started it all (well, maybe not ALL), it's probably about time. In fact, for your convenience, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is on the web. A greater use of paragraphs might have been nice, though.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network (Wednesday, 11/11/98)
The Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York wants to be your main source of economic and financial information. Here's Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Explorations in Social Inequality (Thursday, 11/12/98)
The gap between rich and poor has been widening over much of the world, including the United States, which now has the most unequal distribution of economic resources among all industrialized countries. As a Carnegie Foundation report puts it, this means, among other things, that the future of a randomly selected newborn infant is most likely to be determined far more by social class origins than by individual talents. Here's Explorations in Social Inequality, a comprehensive sociological examination of inequality, its causes, and its consequences.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for Research in Vocational Education (Friday, 11/13/98)
If you are interested in work-related education, you will want to be familiar with the work of NCRVE at the University of California, Berkeley. NCRVE stands for the Center for Research in Vocational Education, and they're on the web.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Internship.de (Saturday, 11/14/98)
There are lots of web sites that intend to help job-seekers and employers get together. Now, here's a site that attempts to do the same thing for persons seeking student internships or employers seeking interns, and it's international. It's Internship.de.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Joint Center for Poverty Research (Sunday, 11/15/98)
To say that the United States is not the exclusive world center of poverty is to become a finalist in the all-time understatement sweepstakes. Nonetheless, America probably has more than its share of poverty, and this may seem ironic, given that, by most reasonable standards, the U.S. is the richest country is history, and surely has the strongest economy in the world at the moment, by far. Generations of the privileged here and abroad have attempted to dismiss the problem by muttering something like "the poor will always be with us." This may or may not be the case, and, even if so, it's a relative issue. We still have to account for the growing gap between haves and have nots. Also, why should we assume that something must always be as it has been? The modern period has been characterized by events and conditions that have not occurred before our lifetimes. The most recent Nobel Prize winner in economics is an expert on poverty, and apparently believes that, like anything else, it requires understanding. The people responsible for the Joint Center for Poverty Research seem to agree. The Center is a joint project of two of the world's great universities, both of which are located in the Chicago area: Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Intelligence (Monday, 11/16/98)
Here's a perspective on business in the new global economy from the United Kingdom. Business Intelligence comes from a publishing, conference, and exhibition company offering information on innovative management and new technologies.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ethics Updates (Tuesday, 11/17/98)
Ethics Updates is intended mostly for people who teach college ethics courses as well as students of ethics. However, it includes special sections on poverty and welfare and on world hunger. The site is a continually developing achievement of Lawrence M. Hinman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WORLDTIME (Wednesday, 11/18/98)
What time is it in...? WORLDTIME comes from HAB Software in Hamburg, Germany. It will tell you the current time in hundreds of cities throughout the world, as well as sunrise and sunset times, and will also tell you about local holidays.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Five O'clock Club (Thursday, 11/19/98)
The Five O'clock Club is a national network of career counselors that has been advising job seekers for twenty years. Among other things, their web site contains dozens of articles of interest to which you are provided free access.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cool Works (Friday, 11/20/98)
Are you presently working in the tar pits or in a salt mine? Would you prefer a slightly better location? How about at a campground or a national park or some other really great place? Cool Works offers tens of thousands of links to jobs in terrific places.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bplans.com (Saturday, 11/21/98)
If you want to start your own small business, you'll probably need a business plan, particularly if you will attempt to obtain financing. The Small Business Administration offers much help and a lot of sample biz plans on Bplans.com.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EcEdWeb (Sunday, 11/22/98)
Public opinion polls some years ago indicated that about 1 of 7 adult Americans were unable to locate the United States on a world map. At about the same time, another poll indicated that, 450 years after Copernicus, about half of adult Americans said that they believed that the sun revolves around the earth, or that they didn't know. However, there is reason to believe that Americans know more about geography and astronomy than economics. EcEdWeb offers support for economics education at all levels.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Census Bureau (Monday, 11/23/98)
The United States Constitution says that a census must be conducted every ten years. During recent months, there has been a lot of controversy over whether sampling techniques should be incorporated into the big count during the year 2000. The Clinton Administration is supporting the idea, saying that it would result in a more accurate count, particularly in minority areas, while Republicans tend to oppose the notion, saying that it would be unconstitutional. By definition, a census means attempting to count everybody, while sampling is something else altogether. The founding fathers knew nothing of statistical sampling techniques, of course, and, at the time the country was founded, the entire United States contained fewer people than the current population of Minnesota. Here's the U.S. Census Bureau's web site, and, if you would like to take a look at America as it appeared in the 1990 census, here's your chance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Europa (Tuesday, 11/24/98)
Here's what the European Union has to say about itself in many languages.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Statistical Data Locators (Wednesday, 11/25/98)
Statistical Data Locators helps you find economic data from countries all over the globe.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JobProfiles.com (Sunday, 11/29/98)
JobProfiles.com offers a look at the personal side of work. Experienced workers in various occupations share their thoughts and suggestions in order to assist career planners in finding the path that best fits them.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workamper News (Monday, 11/30/98)
A happy camper can also be a happy worker. Workamper News may be of interest if you would like to work and camp at the same time.

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