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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Measuring America (Wednesday, 1/1/03)
Measuring America is a report from the Census Bureau on the development of the American population as reflected in the Census from 1790, when 3.9 million persons were counted, to 2000, when the American population totaled 281.4 million.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Slaves and the Courts (Thursday, 1/2/03)
Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 contains about 100 publications from 1772 to 1889 compiled by the Library of Congress.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Executive Pay Watch (Sunday, 1/5/03)
The AFL-CIO wants to call attention to the recent disconnect between executive pay and executive performance, as well as what it regards as various double standards in relation to non-executives in the same corporations. In their Executive Pay Watch section, you can examine their perspective on the issues and also compare your own pay with that of top corporate officials.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Institute of Industrial Relations Library (Monday, 1/6/03)
The Institute of Industrial Relations Library is located on the University of California Berkeley campus, but it is used by people throughout the UC system.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ItCertifiedProfessionals (Tuesday, 1/7/03)
ItCertifiedProfessionals offers to post information technology job openings free for 60 days.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Human Nature Review (Wednesday, 1/8/03)
Human nature is a large subject and Human Nature Review attempts to cover it by reporting research conducted by scholars from more than 160 countries.
Why bother conducting research on the topic, if, as is commonly remarked by politicians as well as participants in barroom conversations, "human nature hasn't changed?"
The answers is that, while this assertion may be largely correct--e.g., the brain of modern humans appears to have remained largely unchanged for tens of thousands of years--our KNOWLEDGE of human nature has changed enormously, and we're just now barely scratching the surface, despite widespread assumptions to the contrary. For instance, compare common traditional beliefs about gender and "racial" differences which persist to the present day with our best current knowledge about these issues (e.g., one cannot tell what "race" a person is by examining his/her DNA, and IQ score distributions for males and females are an almost perfect match). Also, the human brain has as much to do with thinking, feeling, attitudes, beliefs, etc., etc., as legs have to do with running, but before neuroscience research of the 1990s (the "decade of the brain"), we knew almost nothing about how it works.
As we've said repeatedly, since at least the time of Copernicus and greatly accelerating during the 20th century, there has been a growing divergence between our best knowledge of nature, including human nature, as well as the past, on the one hand, and most people's beliefs about these things, on the other. Genuine verifiable knowledge and common popular belief have been getting further and further apart. One important implication is that any randomly selected traditional belief has a high probability of being flat-out wrong, no matter how popular. Of course, any new belief with the same foundations is equally likely to be wrong. An important way in which our period of modernity differs from all previous eras is that humanity has learned a lot about WHAT IT TAKES to arrive at trustworthy answers to empirical questions. WHAT we know depends entirely on HOW we know it.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Reinventing Undergraduate Education (Thursday, 1/9/03)
The Boyer Commission issued its original report on undergraduate education in 1998. Here's a follow-up report from the Reinvention Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tenant Net (Friday, 1/10/03)
If you're a tenant in New York City, you'll find Tenant Net's information to be particularly helpful, and you may also enjoy its irreverence.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune's 100 Best (Saturday, 1/11/03)
Here's the latest list of 100 best companiesto work for from Fortune magazine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HillSearch (Sunday, 1/12/03)
HillSearch is a new online business service from the James J. Hill Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. If you've forgotten a little of your railroad history, here's some information about James J. Hill and why there is a library named after him.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Labor Rights Fund (Monday, 1/13/03)
The International Labor Rights Fund is based in Washington, D.C. It advocates enforcement of international labor rights to protect workers in the global economy, in which production is being moved to poor countries. Millions of people, including an estimated 250 million children, work under inhumane conditions, according to the ILRF.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Connecticut's Job First Program (Tuesday, 1/14/03)
Connecticut's Job First Welfare Reform Program was established in 1996 and has undergone evaluation since. Here's the final report from a study conducted by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for International Private Enterprise (Wednesday, 1/15/03)
The Center for International Private Enterprise intends to strengthen democracy throughout the world by promoting private enterprise. Among other things, the organization attempts to help policymakers develop successful economic strategies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Consumer Price Indexes (Thursday, 1/16/03)
Here's most of what you've ever wanted to know about the Consumer Price Indexes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: School of Public Policy and Social Research (Friday, 1/17/03)
The School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA has three main divisions specializing in the school's three concentration areas: social welfare, policy studies, and urban planning.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: North Korea (Saturday, 1/18/03)
The 2002 World Factbook from the CIA offers an overview of North Korea and its current situation as one of the last decayed remnants of the Cold War, including a grotesque government and catastrophic economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Free Online Filing (Sunday, 1/19/03)
According to the Internal Revenue Service, many American taxpayers will qualify to use free online software and also file their taxes electronically at no cost. Here's where you need to go in order to take advantage of this new opportunity.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Safe Work (Monday, 1/20/03)
The International Labor Organization's Safe Work site focuses on safety and health at work and the environment. The ILO is an agency of the United Nations now, but is older than the UN itself.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Job Market Research (Tuesday, 1/21/03)
The New York Times regularly conducts job market research in conjunction with a variety of other organizations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Best Hospitals (Wednesday, 1/22/03)
Here's the alphabetical index of what U.S. News & World Report regards as the best hospitals in the United States, given the criteria they've chosen to use, which are explained on the site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection (Friday, 1/24/03)
Much of the history of American industrialization as well as the history of Gary, Indiana are documented through the use of 2,200 photographs available on the web. Here's the US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1905-1971.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Employment Trends (Saturday, 1/25/03)
Here's the ILO's press release summarizing their new 108-page report on Global Employment Trends.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CTD Resource Network, Inc. (Sunday, 1/26/03)
CTD Resource Network, Inc. is a California nonprofit organization supporting those with repetitive stress injuries with information and assistance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World Health Report 2002 (Monday, 1/27/03)
Here's the chapter index of the World Health Report for 2002. The full text of each chapter also is available on the site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Rights@Work (Tuesday, 1/28/03)
The AFL-CIO offers Rights@Work to help you understand your legal rights as a worker and, if you feel you are being violated, how you can file a complaint with the appropriate government agency.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Corporate Library (Wednesday, 1/29/03)
The Corporate Library is intended as a central resource on the nature of the global corporation with emphasis on governance and the relations among its principal constituencies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World's Most Respected Companies (Thursday, 1/30/03)
The Financial Times and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have conducted a survey to determine the world's most respected companies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Environment and Trade: A Handbook (Friday, 1/31/03)
Environment and Trade: A Handbook is a joint project of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Environment Programme. It focuses on the interaction of issues relating to trade, environment, and economic development.
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