June 2001 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Post-Careerist (Friday, 6/1/01)
The Post-Careerist questions conventional preoccupations and definitions of success and says that people should arrange their work around their lives, rather than the other way around.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: PERC (Saturday, 6/2/01)
PERC is the Political Economy Research Center and is located in Bozeman, Montana, also the location of one of the state's universities. The institute dedicates itself to finding free-market solutions to environmental problems.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Geography Network (Sunday, 6/3/01)
"Globalization" means one thing economically--actually several very different things, depending on whom you talk to--but it can mean other things in other areas of life. At the very least, lives are connected over the entire globe to an extent and in ways unprecedented until very recent years. It's probably good to know something about the world as a whole, rather than our own little patch of it. The Geography Network makes maps, data, and various geographic services available from throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (Monday, 6/4/01)
The Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics is published in print form only by the Agricultural Institute of Canada. However, their web site displays the tables of contents of each edition, and a sample edition is available for downloading.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jobs on the Net (Tuesday, 6/5/01)
Jobs on the Net is intended for adults at community colleges who want to learn how to make use of the Internet in the job-search process, but it can be helpful to anyone with the same purposes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: GenderGap.com (Wednesday, 6/6/01)
Marilyn Brown is a hi-tech professional as well as a life-long activist on women's issues. Her GenderGap.com site offers opinion and information not limited to gender inequality in the work world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Board for Certified Counselors (Thursday, 6/7/01)
The National Board for Certified Counselors is an independent not-for-profit credentialling organization helping to maintain standards for professional counselors, including those who do career counseling. The NBCC's site can also help you find a qualified counselor in your area.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for Health Economics (Friday, 6/8/01)
The Centre for Health Economics specializes in health economics research at the University of York in the UK.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Global Financial Crisis (Saturday, 6/9/01)
The New York Times tracks and explains the global financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Covering Managed Care (Sunday, 6/10/01)
With renewed attention given to "patients' bill of rights" legislation in the Congress now, you're likely to be seeing a lot about these issues in the press. The Columbia Journalism Review offers Covering Managed Care as a resource guide for reporters and editors.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office Ergonomics (Monday, 6/11/01)
Office Ergonomics is a research-based information resource from a training and consultation firm headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan where the University of Michigan is also located.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Security History (Tuesday, 6/12/01)
As Social Security's future is debated, you might be interested in its past. Here's the Social Security History page from the SSA's official site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RetirementNet (Wednesday, 6/13/01)
RetirementNet is a portal for those interested in most things having to do with retirement planning and living.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: refdesk.com (Thursday, 6/14/01)
If you like facts, you'll probably want to bookmark refdesk.com.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Mint (Friday, 6/15/01)
The Mint hopes to teach economics to middle and high school students, as well as their parents, with multiple sections focusing on a variety of issues, including what it takes to start one's own business, government spending, personal budgeting, and more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Change Master Directory (Saturday, 6/16/01)
The Global Change Master Directory provides access to extensive information and technical data on environmental and climate change and comes from NASA.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Pew Center on Global Climate Change (Sunday, 6/17/01)
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was established in 1998 by the famed Pew Charitable Trusts based in Philadelphia. This non-profit, non-partisan organization seeks ways of dealing with global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) (Monday, 6/18/01)
The SCSEP is a part-time employment program for low-income persons 55 or over and is conducted by the United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Deflation Hysteria (Tuesday, 6/19/01)
George Selgin of the Cato Institute agues in America's Deflation Hysteria that, contrary to widespread presumption, deflation is not necessarily destructive. Mr. Selgin's article was published in 1997.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Science, Industry, and Business at the New York Public Library (Wednesday, 6/20/01)
Most American public libraries don't compare very well with major academic libraries, but the New York Public Library is a clear exception, since it is one of the great libraries of the world. Here's their Science, Industry, and Business section.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 21st Century Workforce Summit (Thursday, 6/21/01)
Here's the U. S. Department of Labor's site for last Tuesday's 21st Century Workforce Summit in Washington. New information is likely to be added.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United for a Fair Economy (Friday, 6/22/01)
United for a Fair Economy is an activist organization working to narrow what they regard as the destructive, limiting, and growing income and assets gap in American society. Among other things, the organization maintains a number of partnerships with church and labor organizations.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Positioning System (Saturday, 6/23/01)
If you're wondering where on earth you are, the Global Positioning System can help, and here's an explanation as well as a history of the system from the prestigious National Academies. They estimate that a $30 billion industry will evolve out of the system, which, originally, was developed for military purposes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Beige Book (Sunday, 6/24/01)
The Beige Book summarizes anecdotal information on the American economy gathered by Federal Reserve banks throughout the country and is published eight times per year.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Richest People (Monday, 6/25/01)
Here's the new list of the World's Richest People from Forbes magazine. You can compare it with lists for previous years, if you like. Also, this year's list can be conveniently alphabetized so that you can check to see if you're on it. Incidentally, Bill Gates, while still the world's wealthiest individual, has lost almost half of his net worth during the past couple of years. For a brief period more than two years ago, his fortune was estimated to be at about $100 billion. If that's impressive, you may be interested to know that, at its peak, John D. Rockefeller's fortune, in current dollars, is estimated to have been at approximately $200 billion.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New York Small Business Resource Center (Tuesday, 6/26/01)
The New York Small Business Resource Center offers guidance as well as access to resources for those interested in starting a small business in New York.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (Wednesday, 6/27/01)
The Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation is located in Australia and has been conducting research and advising on policy for ten years.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New York Times: Working (Thursday, 6/28/01)
Here's the New York Times' special section on working and careers during the 21st century.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Population Index (Friday, 6/29/01)
Population Index contains an annotated bibliography of more than 46,000 books, journal articles, and other resources on global population topics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Microsoft vs. DOJ (Saturday, 6/30/01)
Here's a history of the Microsoft antitrust case, including the very latest, from ABC News.

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