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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BBB Wise Giving Alliance (Tuesday, 10/1/02)
Operating expenses eat up a major portion of the funds contributed to some charities, and, of those expenses, you may be disappointed to find that much goes for labor costs. In other words, somebody is collecting money from well-meaning contributors in order to provide themselves with a living. The extreme examples are the non-profit--that is, tax-exempt--versions of those infamous corporate cases we've heard so much about lately in which unscrupulous executives essentially loot stockholder moneys for their own use. People who buy stocks like to know what they're really buying; people who make charitable contributions like to know what real good their money is doing. Neither wants to simply support those who are supposed to be running the organization. The BBB Wise Giving Alliance can help you make informed charitable decisions, and "BBB" stands for "Better Business Bureau."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Largest U.S. Charities (Wednesday, 10/2/02)
Here are the 50 largest charities in the United States ranked by total income as compiled by the Christian Science Monitor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CDC Traveler's Health (Thursday, 10/3/02)
The Centers for Disease Control's Traveler's Health site offers information relating to specific destinations around the world, as well as general advice on how to remain healthy while traveling.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Quarterly Employment Forecasts (Friday, 10/4/02)
Here are Quarterly Employment Forecasts for Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States from Manpower, Inc.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Regional Economic Conditions (Saturday, 10/5/02)
If you're interested in an overview of economic conditions as well as levels of risk for financial institutions, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Regional Economic Conditions site offers information and opportunities for analysis for the entire country at state, Metropolitan Statistical Area, and county levels.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Strike Page (Sunday, 10/6/02)
The Great Speckled Bird, which says it is working toward the establishment of a formal "Liberal Party of the United States," has collaborated with LaborNet on their Strike Page, which is intended to keep track of strikes. We don't know how accurate or complete the list is.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Best Colleges 2003 (Monday, 10/7/02)
Each year, somebody at US News magazine decides which are the best American colleges. The rankings are taken seriously by a lot of people, including students, their parents, employers, and, as a result, the colleges themselves. Here's this year's list of America's Best Colleges from US News.
Incidentally, while many of society's more outstanding people have graduated from one college or another, would all this work if it had nothing to do with knowledge and if there weren't any differences among the colleges? Yes, if everybody who is involved believed it. "Social construction" always plays a major role in determining the subjective realities of most people most of the time, and America's preoccupation with status symbols is not an exception. Along these lines, you might want to take a look at our news brief headlined "Calls for a remodeling of higher education" dated Wednesday, 10/2/02.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Slaves and the Courts (Tuesday, 10/8/02)
Here are more than a hundred documents from the Library of Congress on court cases involving slaves between 1740 and 1860.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Rural Affairs (Wednesday, 10/9/02)
The Center for Rural Affairs says that it is dedicated to the well-being of rural America, and, among other things, publishes a monthly newsletter.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Recent Nobel Economics Prize Winners (Thursday, 10/10/02)
With the 2002 Nobel Laureates announced yesterday, you may interested in reviewing the winners of the prize over the past several years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Terrorism Research Center (Friday, 10/11/02)
The Terrorism Research Center is an independent "think-tank" specializing in issues having to do with terrorism. It started in 1996, and, among other things, lists dozens of organizations which it says engage in actions which meet the FBI's definition of terrorism.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Older Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000 (Saturday, 10/12/02)
Here's a recent report on foreign-born older Americans form the U.S. Census Bureau based on a national random sample of 57,000 people.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: PopNet (Sunday, 10/13/02)
PopNet offers access to global population information from a variety of sources and comes from the Population Reference Bureau.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Women: Trends and Statistics (Monday, 10/14/02)
The United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs offers their year 2000 edition of the World's Women: Trends and Statistics, with many updated more recently.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Comparisons in Education (Tuesday, 10/15/02)
The U.S. government's National Center for Education Statistics also compiles data for those interested in making International Comparisons in Education.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Diversity Job Market (Wednesday, 10/16/02)
Diversity Job Market is brand new to the web and comes from the New York Times and Community Connect, Inc. It claims to offer the nation's largest database of Asian American, African American and Hispanic job candidates.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Cycle Indicators (Thursday, 10/17/02)
New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini offers an introduction, as well as a hypertext glossary and other information about Business Cycle Indicators.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Sanctions for Achieving Foreign Policy Objectives (Friday, 10/18/02)
With North Korean government headquarters apparently resembling some sort of security hospital, news that this rogue state is developing, and, in fact, may already have, nuclear weapons is not a source of contentment for many persons in the world, particularly those in South Korea, Japan, the United States, and probably China as well.
The Clinton administration came close to going to war with North Korea in 1994 when one major American news magazine ran a cover story titled "The Most Dangerous Place on Earth." Presently, though, it doesn't appear that the Bush administration is considering a military solution to the problem, because there don't appear to be any acceptable military options.
Seoul, the highly populous capital of South Korea, is only a few miles from the North Korean border. Any military conflict, conventional or nuclear, would lay waste to the Korean peninsula, resulting in enormous casualties on both sides. Even though there is no way that North Korea could be victorious and even though an attack from the North almost surely would be suicidal doesn't necessarily mean it can't happen, given the mysterious irrationality of the man who is supposed to be in charge of the government.
Moreover, a rapidly evolving China has less in common with North Korea with each passing day. China's leaders don't appear to be closet democrats or particularly altruistic, but they don't appear to be insane either. North Korea's Stalinist ideology, as well as its fundamental irrationality, can only be unsettling to them as well, given their much greater interest in economic development now than any destabilization of the entire region.
Nonetheless, there is always the possibility that war between North and South Korea could pull China into a conflict with the United States, which seems to be the only real possibility right now for an armed conflict on a scale of either of the 20th century's world wars. In other words, no rational person in any modern country wants it. International politics has made "stranger bedfellows" than a democratic America and whatever China is at this point in addition to authoritarian, but both probably share an interest in seeing North Korea domesticated.
It may be fortunate that rich America, rich Japan, rich South Korea, and increasingly rich China can have great potential economic leverage when dealing with desperately poor North Korea. But, how well have economic sanctions as an instrument of foreign policy worked in the past, and what are the conditions under which they work relatively well or relatively poorly? Here's more on economic sanctions from the Institute for International Economics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Human Rights Watch (Saturday, 10/19/02)
How are human rights doing around the world? Here's the World Report for 2002 from the Human Rights Watch organization.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The History of the European Union (Sunday, 10/20/02)
With the EU and its prospects for eastward expansion in the news today, you may be interested in tracing the organization's economic and political development. Here's a chronology of the European Union from 1946 to 2002.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work Life Book (Monday, 10/21/02)
Work Life Book is an Internet project that its producers intend to turn into a print project. You're invited to share your thoughts and experiences about work. Your contribution could become part of the publication.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Roman Economy (Tuesday, 10/22/02)
Here is a little information about the things such as buying, selling, currencies, inflation, and other issues in the Roman economy from San Jose State University.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Electronic Journals (Wednesday, 10/23/02)
The United States Department of State publishes several electronic journals, including Economic Perspectives.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (Wednesday, 10/23/02)
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics provides official economic, demographic, and other kinds of data. The latest Consumer Price Index as well as a recent survey of the Palestinian labor force are included.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work and Family (Friday, 10/25/02)
The Work and Family unit is maintained by the Australian government to promote family-friendly work practices and to assist both employers and employees in finding ways to improve balance between work and family life.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (Saturday, 10/26/02)
Because of growing evidence that the earth is becoming a different kind of planet, the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment conducts interdisciplinary research having to do with issues that are likely to shape the quality of life for centuries. It is located at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union (Sunday, 10/27/02)
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work published its report, The State of Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union, in October 2000. The entire report is available on the web in multiple formats.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Heritage Foundation (Monday, 10/28/02)
The Heritage Foundation is a well-known Washington, D.C.-based "think-tank" that, among other things, conducts research on economic policy issues.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money? (Tuesday, 10/29/02)
University of Chicago researchers Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil say that the literature on child development indicates that children tend do better either in married-parent or single-parent families than in cohabiting families. Here's their report on researching intending to address the question "How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money?". The complete report is available via this site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Executive Pay (Wednesday, 10/30/02)
Some American executives seem to be paid more than the GDP of many small countries, although we haven't checked. At any rate, here's the Washington Post's Top 100, showing total executive compensation in relation to salary.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Richest Politicians (Thursday, 10/31/02)
If you want politicians in office who can't be bought, maybe you should vote for people who are rich already. Forbes, which, among other things, is well-known for its lists, offers a listing of America's Richest Politicians. Pop quiz--which current office holder has the greatest personal net worth? Hint: he financed is own campaign, which cost tens of millions of dollars. Well, actually, that's several hints.
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