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November 2003

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: China's Richest 15 (Saturday, 11/1/03)
China is the world's most populous country, and its economy is the fastest-growing in the world. Even though it still contains a large proportion of the world's poorest people, China also is producing very wealthy people at a furious rate. Here are China's 15 richest individuals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Competitiveness Report (Sunday, 11/2/03)
The World Economic Forum has issued its Global Competitiveness Report for 20093-2004. Finland tops the list, with the U.S. second.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Estate Planning (Monday, 11/3/03)
FindLaw's Estate Planning site includes guidance, articles, and other resources.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Home Health Care (Tuesday, 11/4/03)
Medicare's new report rates home health care agencies throughout the Untied States.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Scandal Explained (Wednesday, 11/5/03)
Long Island's Newsday offers a point-by-point explanation of the growing mutual funds scandal.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: North American Free Trade Agreement (Thursday, 11/6/03)
You've surely heard about NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement, but have you read it? Well, here's your chance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Who's Outsourcing? (Friday, 11/7/03)
Who's Outsourcing? intends to slow the flow of American jobs overseas by calling attention to the companies that are exporting jobs as well as by applying political pressure.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Medicare (Saturday, 11/8/03)
As you might expect, Medicare has a web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FindLaw (Sunday, 11/9/03)
Sometimes you need to find a lawyer, but sometimes you simply need FindLaw.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RePEc (Monday, 11/10/03)
People in the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut claim that RePEc is the largest economic database in the world. Of the hundreds of thousands of economic research items, more than 110,000 can be downloaded in full text form.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Higher Education Statistics Agency (Tuesday, 11/11/03)
The Higher Education Statistics Agency has been gathering and reporting statistics for higher education in the United Kingdom since 1993.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The History of the Income of the US Government from Taxes (Wednesday, 11/12/03)
Dr. Michael Gherrity has compiled data from government sources and presented them graphically as the History of the Income of the US Government from Taxes covering the period from 1940 until the mid-1990s.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: GLOBIO (Thursday, 11/13/03)
GLOBIO is supported by a variety of international organizations, including the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and the United Nations Environment Programme. It maps how humanity, in its growing numbers, impacts on the biosphere.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (Friday, 11/14/03)
Cornell University's Professor Joan Jacobs Brumberg believes that its long past time for a reassessment of home economics' historical importance. The Cornell University library's Home Economics Archive contains hundreds of thousands of pages of digitized information.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Committee on Ways and Means (Saturday, 11/15/03)
Here's the influential Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives. How many subcommittees does the committee have? If you said "six," you're entitled to the coveted NewWork News handshake award.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Department of Employment Services (Sunday, 11/16/03)
Here's the Department of Employment Services for the District of Columbia. Even if you're outside D.C., the site contains access to information in which you may have interest.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: European Centre for Minority Issues (Monday, 11/17/03)
The European Centre for Minority Issues was established seven years ago, but has roots that extend back five years earlier. The Centre studies a variety of issues having to do with minorities throughout Europe including ethnic tensions.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor Research (Tuesday, 11/18/03)
The Heritage Foundation says that American labor law still tends to reflect conditions and perspectives of the 1930s. It examines a number of contemporary labor issues on its labor research page.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Women's Bureau (Wednesday, 11/19/03)
The United States Department of Labor says that its Women's Bureau is intended to "promote profitable employment opportunities for women," among other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work Index (Thursday, 11/20/03)
Work Index is a human resources gateway from Human Resource Executive.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Unemployment Statistics by State (Friday, 11/21/03)
Here are Unemployment Statistics by State from the Heritage Foundation, although not always entirely up to date.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for the Child Care Workforce (Saturday, 11/22/03)
The American Federation of Teachers says that it wants to "improve the quality of early care and education for all children" through its Center for the Child Care Workforce.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute (Sunday, 11/23/03)
The Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute says it exists for the purpose of research, education, and advocacy to end psychological violence at work. The Institute intends to serve individuals and organizations in the United States and Canada.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Computers and Health (Monday, 11/24/03)
Computers and Health tracks potential health risks associated with computing and comes from Indiana University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 2000-2010 Job Outlook in Brief (Wednesday, 11/26/03)
The 2000-2010 Job Outlook in Brief isn't all that brief. It prints out to about 35 pages. It's based primarily on the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry-Occupation Matrix.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Collaborative Organizations (Thursday, 11/27/03)
The Center for Collaborative Organizations at the University of North Texas focuses on work teams and other forms of collaborative work systems that promote the effectiveness of work organizations.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Drucker Archives (Friday, 11/28/03)
Ninety-four-year-old Peter Drucker is the author of three-dozen books, and has been a productive scholar, teacher, and consultant since the late 1930s. He's widely regarded as the inventor of modern management as well as the profession management consulting. The Drucker Archives are located at Claremont Graduate School in California.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Development Report 2004 (Saturday, 11/29/03)
Here's the 2004 World Development Report from the World Bank. Among other things, it describes the conditions that will be necessary for the achievement of improved human welfare throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center (Sunday, 11/30/03)
The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty is located at the largest homeless service organization in Los Angeles, which, despite the image projected by Hollywood and the many TV shows that are shot in L.A. neighborhoods, has its share of poverty.

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