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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak (Thursday, 4/1/04)
Brooklyn workers speak for themselves in Worklore, which also offers an opportunity to compare work in the Big City borough during the late 19th century with work in the early 21st century.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fatal Occupational Injuries to Government Workers (Friday, 4/2/04)
Stephen Pegula of the Bureau of Labor Statistics examines the cases of the 6,455 government workers who died from work-related injuries between 1992 and 2001.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Forced Migration Review (Saturday, 4/3/04)
Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre has published its Forced Migration Review three times per year in three languages since 1998, both in print and online, with the hope of improving policy and practice as these relate to refugees and internally displaced people.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Cost of a Bad Hire (Sunday, 4/4/04)
What does it really cost you to make a single bad hiring decision? Here's a calculator from Advantage Hiring to help you assess the cost of a bad hire.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tax Center (Monday, 4/5/04)
Yahoo's Tax Center provides nearly everything you need as well as what you need to know in order to prepare your tax returns and file online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New England Economic Indicators (Tuesday, 4/6/04)
New England Economic Indicators is published each month by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and covers both current and historical data from 1969 for six states in the New England region.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Building the Suburban Dream (Wednesday, 4/7/04)
After the long period of uncertainty and deprivation because of the Great Depression followed by the Second World War, many Americans regarded the three Levittowns as dreams, even though many architects thought they were nightmares. They marked the beginnings of suburban life in the 1950s when Americans were looking for a little relief and comfort.
Ironically, many younger people since have regarded the 1950s as a naive and innocent time, an idea that has been reinforced by many of the TV programs of the period that still run on late-night cable. However, the 1950s began with the grueling Korean War, and, only a few years before, every community and virtually every family had been touched by the least innocent events of all human history--the Nazis with their death camps and World War II. Americans were anything but innocent or naive during the 1950s, but they were exhausted.
That great hero of the Second World War, Dwight David Eisenhower, seemed to sense what Americans needed, and even allowed himself to be perceived as a doddering old man who was disengaged as president. However, given papers and other sources of information that have become available since his presidency, we now know that he was anything but disengaged behind the scenes. Much of the decade of the 1950s was a quiet, prosperous time when Americans tried to catch their breath with the help of their President who had been a major player in the events of the brutal decade of the 1940s.
The State Museum of Pennsylvania presents an online museum to help you recall a time when the Levittowns helped to define the suburban dream in the United States when peace, prosperity, and quiet family life were of special importance to so many Americans.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Thursday, 4/8/04)
The New Georgia Encyclopedia intends to become a comprehensive online resource covering hundreds of topics relating to the Peach State.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The New Americans (Friday, 4/9/04)
The New Americans is intended to complement the widely-acclaimed PBS series of the same name.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cross Cultural Training Bibliography (Saturday, 4/10/04)
The Cross Cultural Training Bibliography is developed and maintained by Bill Weech.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cross Cultural Training Bibliography (Sunday, 4/11/04)
The College of William and Mary's Office of Career Services operates the William and Mary Career Services site.
For years, William and Mary and Harvard argued over which is the oldest college in the United States. However, it appears that W&M has conceded, judging from their description of themselves.
Is it harder to get into William and than the United States Senate? Probably not, but the College of William and Mary has been providing world-class higher educational opportunities for more than three centuries. Its campus is located at the end of the main street at Colonial Williamsburg near where Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, built one of the nation's first enlightened psychiatric hospitals. William and Mary is also where Thomas Jefferson studied the law for five years under George Wythe.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Things You Should Know About Telework (Monday, 4/12/04)
InteleWorks.com, a private consulting and training organization specializing in telecommuting, offers a few things they think you should know about telework.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Travel Center (Tuesday, 4/13/04)
The Business Travel Center is where to go before you go, they say.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HCUPnet (Wednesday, 4/14/04)
The United States Department of Health and Human Services maintains the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (KCUPnet), a tool for "identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Retirement Special Report (Thursday, 4/15/04)
Here's an ambitious special section on retirement from the New York Times.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Victorian Economics (Friday, 4/16/04)
An overview of Victorian economics, including major economic thinkers of the period, is part of the ambitious and instructive Victorian Web, and is funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Women's Rights and Democracy in the Arab World (Saturday, 4/17/04)
Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace examines what an outside country such as the United States can hope to accomplish with respect to women's rights and democracy in Arab countries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Rural Areas and the Internet (Sunday, 4/18/04)
Peter Bell of the Pew Internet & American Life Project offers a report on the uses of the Internet by Americans in rural areas of the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Foreign Labor Statistics (Monday, 4/19/04)
There is no standardized use of statistical concepts or methods across countries, so the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics does what it can to make meaningful comparisons on its Foreign Labor Statistics site. The site concentrates on major industrial countries, but some other countries are included as well.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Big Mac Index (Tuesday, 4/20/04)
Economist magazine attempts to determine if a country's currency is undervalued or overvalued through the use of its Big Mac Index.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Wednesday, 4/21/04)
The famed Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been conducting a longitudinal survey of 8,700 households since 1968 in order to examine the economic behavior of individual family members in relation to their total families. Here's information about the Institute for Social Research's Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Health Care & Medical Employment (Thursday, 4/22/04)
Pam Pohly provides an Internet guide for persons seeking employment in the healthcare industry.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Harvard Family Research Project (Friday, 4/23/04)
The Harvard Family Research Project began in 1983 to promote child, family, and community development. Many of its publications are available online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Countries and Regions (Saturday, 4/24/04)
Here's an opportunity to check on what the World Bank is doing in various countries and regions of the world to alleviate poverty and improve living standards through the use of loans, technical assistance, and advice on policy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SmallStep (Sunday, 4/25/04)
Guess what-- tobacco use may soon no longer be the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Instead, it may be poor diet and lack of exercise before long, given that deaths due to these factors increased by a third during the past decade. The Department of Health and Human Service has set up SmallStep.gov to help you do something about it and stay alive for a while.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: John Kenneth Galbraith (Monday, 4/26/04)
Many Americans who are merely about 60 or so may best remember economist John Kenneth Galbraith arguing with his friend William F. Buckley, Jr. on television in the 1960s and 1970s. However, he was famous and influential long before that. Dr. Galbraith was born in 1908 and, not only is he still living, he has written a new book. Here's more about John Kenneth Galbraith.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: IMF Working Papers (Tuesday, 4/27/04)
The International Monetary Fund has made its working papers available in full-text versions on the Internet.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment by Occupation (Wednesday, 4/28/04)
Here are employment statistics and income estimates for over 700 occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (Thursday, 4/29/04)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains how the federal government defines and measures poverty in the United States on its Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement page.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Prescription Drug and Other Assistance Programs (Friday, 4/30/04)
Medicare now offers information about discount cards and drug comparisons on its Prescription Drug and Other Assistance Programs page.
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