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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Poverty in the United States 2001 (Friday, 11/1/02)
Poverty in the United States 2001 is the latest report on the topic from the U.S. Census Bureau, and includes definitions, levels, and distribution of poverty in the U.S.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: China's 100 Richest (Saturday, 11/2/02)
China has the world's largest population, most of whom still live in the countryside and are still very poor. However, the number of people living in the cities who are part of the latest Chinese revolution is roughly equal to the total population of the United States. In a sense, China is an increasingly rich country within a larger, very poor country. With the world's largest population and the world's fastest growing economy, it's difficult not to notice China and think about its future. China's richest individuals are among the richest people in the world, and many of them have built their wealth almost overnight. Forbes has been noticing, and its list of China's 100 Richest is already in its fourth annual edition.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Carl Frost Center (Sunday, 11/3/02)
Holland, Michigan long has been known for its tulip festival for non-mysterious reasons, but it's also well-known for little Hope College. That's where TV's Robert Schuller of Orange County, California's Crystal Cathedral once was, and where David Myers, author of the English-speaking world's leading psychology textbook, still is.
It's also home of the Carl Frost Center in recognition of Dr. Frost's decades of work in developing the Scanlon Plan in companies throughout the region, as well as internationally. He was trained as a clinical psychologist at Clark University before spending some early years on the faculty of M.I.T. where he worked with the legendary Douglas McGregor and began the process of helping to develop modern organizational psychology.
Dr. Frost spent more than forty years on the faculty of Michigan State University during which time he became recognized as a principal proponent of the Scanlon Plan, a means by which organizational performance and job satisfaction can be maximized through company-wide participation in governance and rewards.
Dr. Frost is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Making the Most of Your Gift (Monday, 11/4/02)
When the economy slows down, charitable needs tend to increase while charitable contributions tend to decrease. The Washington Post's Albert Crenshaw describes the various kinds of contributions you can make and also how to get the most out of them for recipients as well as yourself.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: NACElink (Tuesday, 11/5/02)
NACElink is a new nonprofit job-posting service from a consortium of 27 major universities and the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Producer Price Indexes (Wednesday, 11/6/02)
As an overall measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index is mostly often reported in the press. However, economists often prefer to "move upstream" a bit and look at the Labor Department's Producer Price Indexes.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Peter F. Drucker Foundation (Thursday, 11/7/02)
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation is named after the father of modern management, now in his 90's, who has been one of the most influential authors and consultants for more than 60 years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Guide to Industries (Friday, 11/8/02)
the Occupational Outlook Handbook is a standard source of occupational information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the United States Department of Labor, and is widely used in college and university career centers. The Career Guide to Industries is its companion and offers information about careers within more than 42 industries which together account for about 70 percent of the wage and salary jobs in the American economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Help in cleaning up the financial mess that's exhausting you and consuming your life (Saturday, 11/9/02)
Do many of your work hours each month go simply to pay interest? Are you wondering how you'll ever be able to do anything other than continue this routine until shortly before you take your last breath? Is "retirement" something only other people can expect to do? Probably not.
First, develop a realistic plan for getting out of debt. Then, get started, and stick to it. Here's help from the famed Kipplinger organization.
Secondly, start saving, and here are some tools and resources from the American Savings Education Council to help with that.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Brookings Economic Studies (Sunday, 11/10/02)
Washington, D. C. is infested with private "think tanks," organizations that attempt to connect scholarship with policy recommendations. The Brookings Institution may be the first; it traces its roots back to 1916. It's never been accused of being a "conservative" organization, but whether you regard it as "liberal" or "centrist" depends on the ideological position from which you're viewing it. Interestingly, its board includes Alan Batkin, Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, as well as former Republican Senator Warren Rudman. However, Lawrence Summers, former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary and current president of Harvard University also is a member. At any rate, a principal reason for its existence is to study economic issues affecting the United States as well as the industrialized and developing world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Financial Planning Calculators (Monday, 11/11/02)
Would you like to have an online financial planning calculator to help you plan your future? How about more than 100 of them? You will have the American Savings Education Council to thank for making them accessible.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social, Economic, and Political Change (Tuesday, 11/12/02)
When societies change, HOW do they change, and WHY do they change, and develop in the first place, the way they do? The Social, Economic, and Political Change site explores these questions. It is supported by the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Policy Briefs and Economic Indicators (Wednesday, 11/13/02)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) has gathered together an extensive collection of policy briefs and economic indicators from a variety of sources.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (Thursday, 11/14/02)
In some areas of life, it has become routine for as much change to occur in a few years as used to require a thousand years. This should give people in higher education pause for thought, if the beginnings of the modern university institution can be traced to Bologna around 1076. In fact, it appears that higher education is now in the early stages of a fundamental reorganization, and some forecasters expect the majority of colleges and universities, as we know them, to be gone within a quarter century or less. It's probably a good time for those who have a stake in higher education to engage in vigorous discussion. This is what the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education is for. It's located on the campus of the world's great public higher ed institutions, the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The first modern public university was established at Charlottesville, Virginia by Thomas Jefferson. Like the United States itself, it was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment and represented a fundamental change of direction for higher education. Previously, colleges and universities were church-supported, which is to say that scholarship didn't start with questions of all kinds: some answers, particularly those having to do with religion, were assumed from the beginning, and, at least, by implication, questioning many of these assumptions was regarded as off-limits.
As a consequence, Jefferson had quite a lot to do with helping to redefine the nature and purpose of a genuine university in the contemporary world. However, he would be disappointed to find that the American academic culture has evolved in a way that resembles the European aristocratic system which he felt America was created to reject. He didn't want the University of Virginia to grant degrees, for instance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care (Friday, 11/15/02)
What happens to young people in foster care when they grow up? Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care is a report from research conducted at the University of Chicago.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (Saturday, 11/16/02)
The National Study of Postsecondary Faculty is an ongoing research project conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics at the United States Department of Education. Data were first collected during the 1987-1988 academic year with additional collections at intervals since. Additional data will be collected next academic year.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Labor Relations Board (Sunday, 11/17/02)
The National Labor Relations Board investigates unfair labor practices, among other things, and, in 1935, was established to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine (Monday, 11/18/02)
North Carolina's Duke University medical center maintains a division specializing in occupational and environmental medicine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for Children in Poverty (Tuesday, 11/19/02)
The National Center for Children in Poverty is part of the School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City. Its mission is to identify and promote strategies for preventing child poverty and improving the lives of low-income families.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Classification of American Wealth (Wednesday, 11/20/02)
A Classification of American Wealth tracks wealthy families throughout American history.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Business Schools: Results at a Glance (Thursday, 11/21/02)
Here are the best business schools in the United States in the judgment of corporate recruiters as surveyed by the Wall Street Journal.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy (Friday, 11/22/02)
Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy is a 386-page collection of essays edited by Richard Kazis and Marc Miller and published by the Urban Institute.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for a New American Dream (Saturday, 11/23/02)
The Center for a New American Dream is a nonprofit organization working toward a reduction of consumption and a redefinition of "quality living" in the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Census Bureau: General and Reference Data (Sunday, 11/24/02)
Here's general reference data in great variety of the United States Census Bureau, downloadable in PDF files.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: How to Survive a Lost Job (Monday, 11/25/02)
How to Survive a Lost Job is advice from Bankrate.com.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Life Expectancy Calculator (Tuesday, 11/26/02)
How long are you likely to live? You can make a guestimate based on medians with the Life Expectancy Calculator.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Charity Navigator (Wednesday, 11/27/02)
Charity Navigator tracks how efficiently more than 1,700 charities use the money you give them. How much of the money collected typically goes to serve the charities' purposes, for example, as opposed to operating expenses, including salaries?
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Concord Coalition (Thursday, 11/28/02)
The Concord Coalition says it is advocating balanced budgets and the protection of such entitlements as Medicare. It also claims to be nonpartisan, and the fact that Republican Warren Rudman and Democrat Bob Kerrey were among its founders supports that claim.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Empowering the Way Out of Poverty (Friday, 11/29/02)
Empowering the Way Out of Poverty: Why It Matters, How It Works is a report from an official of the USDA and presents a plan for assisting poor rural communities with emphasis given to "empowerment."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State of Working Wisconsin 2002 (Saturday, 11/30/02)
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy examines the state's workforce in its 72-page report, State of Working Wisconsin 2002. Among many other things, they find that, while median family income has increased in the state, so have total work hours.
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