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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Poverty: Progress and Problems (Monday, 6/2/03)
According to the Brookings Institution's Paul Jargowsky, concentrated poverty declined dramatically in the United States during the 1990s. Here's his report: Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mass Layoff Statistics (Tuesday, 6/3/03)
The Mass Layoff Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor are back. The service had been discontinued at the end of last year because of lack of funding.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor Research Portal (Wednesday, 6/4/03)
If you're involved in labor relations, you will want to know about the information accessible to you through the University of California, Berkeley's Labor Research Portal.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CareerOneStop (Thursday, 6/5/03)
CareerOneStop tries to be what its name suggests, but you'll have to be the judge of whether it lives up to its name. However, one way that makes it different from similar sites is that this one is publicly-funded and comes from the United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Public Administration and Management Journal (Friday, 6/6/03)
Founded by scholars from the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, the Public Administration and Management Journal claims to be the first-of-its kind peer-reviewed journal on the Internet.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ford's History (Saturday, 6/7/03)
The Ford Motor Company is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month. The Kansas City Star offers a chronology of key events in the company's history.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (Sunday, 6/8/03)
Retired UCLA physics professor Nina Byers led the effort to produce Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics in order to point out that, despite stereotypes, technical fields never have been exclusively a man's game.
Given present trends, there are likely to be even more prominent women physicists from now on. Recent studies show that about 60 percent of American college and university students are now women, and females are outperforming males across the board, including technical fields, from elementary through graduate and professional school. For various reasons, American males are falling behind to the point of not being prepared for college by the time they reach college age.
The traditional gender gap persists in the work world, but there is a growing gender gap of a different kind in American schools at all levels. If present trends continue, women will eventually hold most of the higher skill, higher paid white-collar jobs. What will this mean for the marriage institution and family relationships or society as a whole? We don't know either, but things certainly have changed from a time remembered by some people still living when it was thought that women weren't smart enough to vote, that it was a waste of time sending girls to school very long, and, if a girl was smart, she should conceal the fact in order to heighten her marriage prospects.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: School Administrators and Their Careers (Monday, 6/9/03)
Will there be enough qualified school administrators during the years ahead? The issue is examined in detail in a lengthy report called Who is Leading our Schools?
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Jobs for All Coalition (Tuesday, 6/10/03)
The National Jobs for All Coalition wants to see full employment at livable wages. Its large board of advisors contains some famous names, and it maintains affiliations with a large number of other organizations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Wednesday, 6/11/03)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and is a good information source, including research data and survey results.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Governing (Thursday, 6/12/03)
Governing is a monthly magazine for people who establish policy and manage daily operations of city, state, and county governments, as well as various governmental agencies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economics A-Z (Friday, 6/13/03)
Economics A-Z provides definitions and more in order to cast light on key economic concepts. It all comes from the Economist magazine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Condition of Education 2003 (Saturday, 6/14/03)
The Condition of Education 2003 is the latest report from the National Center for Education Statistics of the United States Department of Education.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of Game Theory (Sunday, 6/15/03)
Paul Walker of New Zealand's University of Canterbury offers a chronology of game theory's development from ancient times to the present. Also, see Economic and Game Theory by UCLA's David Levine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Largest U.S. Cities, 1790-1990 (Monday, 6/16/03)
Here are data from the U.S. Census Bureau on the population of the 100 largest cities in the United States as gathered in the 21 decennial censuses between 1790 and 1990. For instance, New York was largest city in the United States in 1790 as well as in 1990. However, its population in 1790 was less than 2/3 the current population of Bismarck, North Dakota today.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tolerance.org (Tuesday, 6/17/03)
Those who oppose hate and bigotry and want their communities to value diversity are invited to start by visiting Tolerance.org from the Southern Poverty Law Center with the assistance of several corporate sponsors.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: NeighborhoodScout (Wednesday, 6/18/03)
NeighborhoodScout claims to use a huge database that can help them match you to a new neighborhood if you're planning to move.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Legacy of NAFTA (Thursday, 6/19/03)
The Arizona Republic offers a status report on the effects of NAFTA so far.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nation Master (Friday, 6/20/03)
Many people, when interested in statistics for the world's countries, consult the World Factbook from the CIA, and that's still a good source. However, Nation Master allows quick comparisons of your choice through the use of graphs based on hundreds of data sets.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mortgage-calc.com (Saturday, 6/21/03)
Despite its name, Mortgage-calc.com doesn't limit itself to mortgage calculators. The site contains many for a variety of purposes.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Capitalism FAQ (Sunday, 6/22/03)
The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism invites hard questions and provides answers on its Capitalism FAQ page.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. National Debt Clock (Monday, 6/23/03)
The U.S. National Debt Clock enables you to watch the United States dig a deep hole deeper.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Layoff Survival Kit for Union Leaders (Tuesday, 6/24/03)
The Working for America Institute offers advice and resources for union leaders who are trying to assist workers during a time of layoffs. Here's A Layoff Survival Kit for Union Leaders.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Minority Business Development Agency (Wednesday, 6/25/03)
The Minority Business Development Agency is an agency of the federal government. Since 1969, it has encouraged and assisted in the creation and development of minority-owned businesses in the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Thursday, 6/26/03)
The Federal Statistical Office of Germany employs nearly 3,000 people and collects data on nearly every aspect of German life, including economics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (Friday, 6/27/03)
Among other things, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education works to ensure that post-secondary education will remain accessible for the largest number of Americans. It is nonprofit and was founded in 1998.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Family Life and Work Experience before 1918 (Saturday, 6/28/03)
Family Life and Work Experience before 1918 is an oral history project from the ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre of University of Essex in the United Kingdom.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute of Development Studies Research on Globalisation (Sunday, 6/29/03)
The Institute of Development Studies in Bristol, England has been studying the benefits of globalisation and their distribution.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2002 Urban Mobility Report (Monday, 6/30/03)
If you're still talking about "rush hour" and emphasizing the singular, you may be stuck in a time-warp. The 2002 Urban Mobility Report from Texas A&M University says it hasn't been only an hour since Richard Nixon was president.
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