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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EconDash (Tuesday, 7/1/03)
If your car's dashboard has meters, this will be a familiar metaphor. EconDash includes meters representing various economic statistics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money 101 Glossary (Wednesday, 7/2/03)
Money, money, money, and thousands of other words are defined and explained in the Money 101 Glossary.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Bank Photo Library (Thursday, 7/3/03)
Enter "guest" as your user name and "browse" as your password in order to examine the World Bank's online photo library, which includes hundreds of images of development from throughout the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Government and Labour Law and Administration (Friday, 7/4/03)
Government and Labour Law and Administration (GLLAD) is part of the International Labour Organization, which itself is an agency of the United Nations. The GLLAD site is intended to encourage and facilitate governmental labour ministries in engaging in social dialogue.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (Saturday, 7/5/03)
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has been the principal source of health policy information for the state of California since 1994 and has a staff of approximately 60 persons.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The "New Economy" and Its Impact on Exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (Sunday, 7/6/03)
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics teamed up with researchers at the University of Tennessee in order to study how the "new economy" influences executive, administrative and professional exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment Characteristics of Families (Monday, 7/7/03)
Here's a Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the employment characteristics of American families by race, marital status, presence of children in the family and other variables.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Aid and Reform in Africa (Tuesday, 7/8/03)
Aid and Reform in Africa is a World Bank report on how development aid has influenced economic policy in ten African nations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Economic Impact of US Sanctions with Respect to Cuba (Wednesday, 7/9/03)
The Economic Impact of US Sanctions with Respect to Cuba is a 390 page report from the U.S. International Trade Commission requested by the United States House of Representatives.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Global 2000 (Thursday, 7/10/03)
Here's Fortune magazine's list of the Global 2000 largest corporations in the world. But, what do they mean "largest?" So far as sales are concerned, Wal-Mart is number 1, but with respect to assets, it's Citigroup; for profits, it's ExxonMobile; and for market value, it's General Electric.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Development Initiatives (Friday, 7/11/03)
Development Initiatives works on issues having to do with poverty, development, and international relations. The organization is located in the UK.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The HIPC Initiative and Human Rights (Saturday, 7/12/03)
Here's the United Nations' human rights assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Women and Information Technology (Sunday, 7/13/03)
The Center for Women and Information Technology promotes the involvement of women in the IT industry and is located at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Directory of Development Organizations (Monday, 7/14/03)
Here's the latest edition of the Directory of Development Organizations which lists thousands of contacts for those interested in the reduction of poverty and the economic development of poor countries. The directory is divided into seven geographical sections.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: You are Worth More (Tuesday, 7/15/03)
You are Worth More is published by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It's an example of an ambitious, information-rich site, not from a national organization, but from a union local.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Slavery Era Insurance Registry (Wednesday, 7/16/03)
The Slavery Era Insurance Registry identifies companies that benefited from slavery. It comes from the California Department of Insurance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Behind in the Labor Market (Thursday, 7/17/03)
Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men is a report prepared by Georgetown University professors Paul Offner and Harry Holzer and published by the Brookings Institution.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Every Door Closed (Friday, 7/18/03)
The Center for Law and Social Policy's research finds that many policies intended to reduce crime may, in fact, contribute to recidivism. Their report, Every Door Closed: Barriers Facing Parents With Criminal Records, examines employment and other problems faced by persons with criminal records.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children (Saturday, 7/19/03)
The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children is a report from the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Best Hospitals (Sunday, 7/20/03)
Here's the latest listing of America's Best Hospitals in the judgment of US News editors.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Elder Mistreatment (Monday, 7/21/03)
The National Academy Press is publishing a conventional book called Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America, but has also made it available online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Endowment for Financial Education (Tuesday, 7/22/03)
To say that many Americans are "financially challenged" may be a major understatement, and it doesn't always mean that they don't make enough money. Financial illiteracy seems epidemic in American society. Many Americans create the majority of their own financial problems, suggesting that the need for organizations such as the National Endowment for Financial Education has never been greater.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment (Wednesday, 7/23/03)
The Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment is from 2000, which means it doesn't reflect the major job losses of the past couple of years. Still, it can be instructive to examine distributions by geographical region. Data from the Current Population Survey and the Local Area Unemployment Statistics are used.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Rise of the E-Citizen (Thursday, 7/24/03)
The Philadelphia-based Pew Foundation's project on the Internet and American life presents this report on how Americans use government agency web sites.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Don't Do It! (Friday, 7/25/03)
Fritz Jaeger says he really didn't know what he was getting himself into when he started his own business. In his book, Don't Do It!, he describes the various reasons why you might not want to do it either. Mr. Jaeger wants to sell his book, but he has included parts of a few chapters on his website.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2003 Tax-Cut Calculator (Saturday, 7/26/03)
Determine how the new tax cut will affect you by using PaycheckCity's 2003 Tax-Cut Calculator
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SoYouWanna.com (Sunday, 7/27/03)
SoYouWanna.com may or may not be helpful, but, even if it isn't, it's likely to entertain you. It's intended to help you prepare to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but haven't known how and may not even have known what to ask about. There's a work-related section, but most are recreational.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: KeepMedia (Monday, 7/28/03)
The man who built the chain of Borders bookstores is launching KeepMedia, which for a monthly flat fee reported to be $4.95, intends to offer subscribers full access to the archives of 140 magazines and newspapers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 50 Most Influential Policy Books of all Time (Tuesday, 7/29/03)
Here are the 50 Most Influential Policy Books of all Time, in the judgment of the editors at Policy.com.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Costs of AIDS (Wednesday, 7/30/03)
It appears that AIDS has surpassed the "black death" of the mid-14th century as history's worst pandemic in terms of cost in lives. However, the World Bank says that AIDS is "turning back the clock" on development in many countries too. Here is the Bank's Economic Costs of AIDS site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Country Studies (Thursday, 7/31/03)
The Library of Congress Federal Research Division's Country Studies provides services to agencies of the federal government and the District of Columbia. Their site provides information about culture, institutions, including economic, and national security arrangements of the world's countries.
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