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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Peanuts and Crackerjacks (Sunday, 9/1/02)
If you would like to learn about the economics of professionals sports, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston can help with Peanuts and Crackerjacks.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor Day Message (Monday, 9/2/02)
Here's this year's Labor Day message from the United States Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Welfare Information Network (Tuesday, 9/3/02)
The Welfare Information Network is a clearinghouse relating to welfare and workforce development. It comes from The Finance Project, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cultural Anthropology and Management (Wednesday, 9/4/02)
The new economy is global, so those who want to conduct business in it have a special need to understand those from cultures other than their own. Professor J.N. Hooker Carnegie Mellon University teaches a course in cultural factors in business, and here is what he calls his "incomplete" bibliography on cultural anthropology and management.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Sociology Editorial Series (Thursday, 9/5/02)
Here are a number of articles on economic sociology written by academics from the United States and Europe.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Company Reports (Friday, 9/6/02)
Companies with publicly traded stock must file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as has become apparent from news reports over the past several months. Here are company reports from the SEC, and the site is searchable.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Growth Resources (Saturday, 9/7/02)
The Economic Growth Resources was created by Jonathan Temple when he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University, and is hosted by the University of Bristol. The site makes a large collection of resources available to researchers and also helps them find each.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Invention at Play (Sunday, 9/8/02)
Invention at Play explores the relationship between play and invention. The site is sponsored by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Help Wanted Index (Monday, 9/9/02)
The Conference Board is best-known for its Index of Leading Economic Indicators, but it maintains other indexes as well. For instance, its Help Wanted Index reflects the volume of help-wanted ads in dozens of newspapers across the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: PMI (Tuesday, 9/10/02)
Since 1948, the Institute for Supply Management has been using its seasonally-adjusted PMI diffusion index as a measure of the extent to which the manufacturing sector of the American economy is expanding or contracting.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hudson's Welfare Policy Center (Wednesday, 9/11/02)
The late Herman Kahn may be best known for his work at RAND as a futurist and Cold War strategist, as well as one of the inventors of the modern private "think tank." However, he was also the founder of The Hudson Institute, another major private institution that engages in a wide range of policy research. For example, here's Hudson's Welfare Policy Center.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Fiscal Impact of 9/11 on New York City (Thursday, 9/12/02)
From the Comptroller of New York City and his staff, here is a 65-page report on last year's terrorist attack's economic impact on one of the world's most important cultural and financial capitals, downloadable in PDF form.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Eco-Portal (Friday, 9/13/02)
The people behind Eco-Portal describe it as the "environmental sustainability information source." The site offers access to a wide variety of environmentally-oriented resources, as well as news and opinion.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Opening Doors: Students' Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family, and College (Saturday, 9/14/02)
Opening Doors reports on focus group research from populations affiliated with six community colleges in an attempt to learn more about why many lower-income persons do not take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to them.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United Nations Statistics Division (Sunday, 9/15/02)
If you like numbers or facts about the world, you'll probably enjoy spending several hours at the UN Statistics Division online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The New Economics Foundation (Monday, 9/16/02)
The New Economics Foundation claims to be a new kind of "think tank" where a lot of fresh thinking goes on.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Statistical Agencies (Tuesday, 9/17/02)
The U.S. Census Bureau offers a list of web sites of statistical agencies maintained by the governments of dozens of countries throughout the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EcoEmploy (SM) (Wednesday, 9/18/02)
EcoEmploy (SM) specializes in environmental jobs and careers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Metropolitan Area Rankings (Thursday, 9/19/02)
Here are the Metropolitan Area Rankings from the U.S. Census Bureau. Several hundred metropolitan areas in the United States are ranked, not only by population, but on many other criteria which provide an opportunity for insightful analyses.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (Friday, 9/20/02)
Lincoln's question about whether government by the people will perish from the earth hasn't been answered conclusively for all time, and probably never will be. Democracy has become more popular throughout much of the world during recent years, but continues to be under attack and probably would not survive without continual vigilance. For the civic-minded, or people who should be, the U.S. Government Printing Office presents the Core Documents of U.S. Democracy, not just on paper, but online where anyone in the world with access to the Internet can read them. Now is a good time for Americans, in particular, to explore, read, and think about the significance of America in world history, as well as what is worth preserving or even dying for if necessary. We've decided that it's probably not the gold bathroom fixtures in a Las Vegas casino.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Child Care Bureau (Saturday, 9/21/02)
The Child Care Bureau is part of the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and administers federal funds to help lower-income families access quality child care when parents are working or in school.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worldwide Cost of Living Survey (Sunday, 9/22/02)
Finfacts Worldwide Cost of Living Survey compares prices of hundreds of items in hundreds of cities around the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Occupational Outlook Quarterly (Monday, 9/23/02)
Here's the latest edition of the Occupational Outlook Quarterly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. Bureau forecasters expect the American economy to create 22 million new jobs during the decade. The total American workforce should be 168 million strong by 2010.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers List 2002 (Tuesday, 9/24/02)
In the judgment of editors at Working Mothers magazine, here's the 2002 list of 100 best companies for working mothers to work.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Financial Facts Took Kit (Wednesday, 9/25/02)
The Security and Exchange Commission offers much of what you are likely to need for building a secure financial future in its Financial Facts Tool Kit.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Development Report 2003 (Thursday, 9/26/02)
The full-text version in PDF format of the latest edition of the World Bank's World Development Report examines what they regard as the likely course of such issues such as poverty, maintaining growth, the environmental protection over the next 50 years. A 30-page summary is available.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Higher Education Research Institute (Friday, 9/27/02)
The Higher Education Research Institute is located at UCLA where you will also find the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, a national longitudinal study of American higher education involving the collection of data from some 1,700 colleges and universities and more than 10 million students. The program was begun in 1966.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (Saturday, 9/28/02)
For those interested in modern economic history, the Library of Congress has put together a tremendous collection of resources and a special presentation on the America of the 1920s before things began falling apart in 1929. Here's Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929. Speculations about whether the 1920s/1930s period was somehow precursor to the period including the last decade of the 20th century and the first of the 21st aren't necessarily encouraged, but probably are inevitable.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Apprenticeship Links (Sunday, 9/29/02)
Here are links to apprenticeship sites in many countries around the world from the XPDNC labor organization.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FedStats (Monday, 9/30/02)
There are almost as many statistician jokes as lawyer jokes. For instance, if all the statisticians in the world were laid end-to-end...it would be a good thing. But, it's all about facts, and, if you aren't interested in facts, what are the alternatives? Professional statisticians make a serious effort to do what needs to be done in order to collect reliable and trustworthy facts in order to increase the quality of our connection to the realities with which we must deal. Thus, facts are particularly important to government, and the U.S. federal government has more than 70 agencies that produce statistics of interest to the public. FedStats can help you find them.
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