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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jobs, Immigration, and Outsourcing (Thursday, 7/1/04)
Here are research studies, news items, articles, analyses, and opinion on Jobs, Immigration, and Outsourcing from the libertarian Cato Institute.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ecological Society of America (Friday, 7/2/04)
The Ecological Society of America was founded in 1915 and is a leading professional organization of scientists.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workplace Violence (Saturday, 7/3/04)
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor, homicide is the third-leading cause of fatal injury on the job in the United States. Here's OSHA's Workplace Violence page.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mortgage 101 (Sunday, 7/4/04)
Mortgage 101 offers information, advice, calculators, and, of course, services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Virtual Library on Microcredit (Monday, 7/5/04)
The Virtual Library on Microcredit focuses on the role of extremely small loans and how they can change people's lives around the globe.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UNAIDS (Tuesday, 7/6/04)
The United Nations explains the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, otherwise known as UNAIDS, and says that it is the principal advocate for global action on AIDS, which, more than any pandemic since the "black death" of the mid-14th century, seems capable of redirecting world history.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families (Wednesday, 7/7/04)
Hardships in America is a 115-page report on America's working poor from the Economic Policy Institute.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Outsourcing in the New Economy (Thursday, 7/8/04)
The Institute for International Economics presents what it regards as essential reading on the topic of Outsourcing in the New Economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Sustainable Agriculture (Friday, 7/9/04)
Here is information about the World Bank's latest work on sustainable agriculture.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Saturday, 7/10/04)
Established in 1989, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and distributes tens of millions of dollars to researchers throughout the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (Monday, 7/12/04)
What to do with idled or abandoned industrial facilities? The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development is supporting a competitive grant program to encourage local governments to begin the process of redevelopment. Here's information about the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WTO Members and Observers (Tuesday, 7/13/04)
As of late April 2004, the World Trade Organization had 147 member nations, plus others that are still "observers."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Latest AIDS Facts and Figures (Wednesday, 7/14/04)
The human cost of history's greatest pandemic is enormous, but so is the economic cost. The World Bank says that "failure to act to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic risks endangering hard-won development gains." Here are the latest UNAIDS data released this month.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History Detectives (Thursday, 7/15/04)
History Detectives is a 10-part PBS series and a web site, both of which examine available methods for determining what REALLY happened in the past. You may find that you can use some of these procedures in your own community.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The New Great Migration (Friday, 7/16/04)
New research from the Brookings Institution suggests that a NEW new South beckoned African Americans from the North during the latter third of the 20th century. Here's the report: The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Country Briefings (Saturday, 7/17/04)
The Economist magazine presents news, statistics, and other information on 60 representative countries that may be of special interest if you're concerned about economics and politics. Oh, well, okay, Hong Kong isn't a country, but there is good reason for it to be on the Country Briefings list anyway.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WTO Distance Learning (Sunday, 7/18/04)
The World Trade Organization offers several interactive training modules on WTO subjects, as well as interactive assessment measures.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Net Statistics (Monday, 7/19/04)
Net Statistics can provide a fairly recent overview of the Internet and its worldwide penetration.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Competitiveness Programme (Tuesday, 7/20/04)
The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Programme features The Global Competitiveness Report, which were first published in 1979. Executive summaries are available on their site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bureau of Industry and Security (Wednesday, 7/21/04)
The Bureau of Industry and Security at the United States Department of Commerce exists to " advance U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic interests."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The IMF at Work (Thursday, 7/22/04)
The International Monetary Fund explains itself and its activities in The IMF at Work.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Climate Change (Friday, 7/23/04)
The United Nations is engaged in a global effort to reduce the impact of climate change on the developing world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Oxymorons (Saturday, 7/24/04)
If you like popular expressions like "negative growth," you'll love exploring the Oxymorons site. Remember, "anarchy rules."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Aspects of India's Economy (Sunday, 7/25/04)
Bombay's Research Unit for Political Economy publishes Aspects of India's Economy in print and online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A VERY Brief Overview of Political Conventions (Monday, 7/26/04)
Edward Grabianowski explains how political conventions work, their functions, their history, and more.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 1904 World's Fair (Tuesday, 7/27/04)
It has been a hundred years since the momentous World's Fair in St. Louis. The 1904 World's Fair site from the Missouri Historical Society offers an opportunity to look at life during that period, as well as the future, including our own time, as seen from the perspective people living a century ago.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nursing Shortage (Wednesday, 7/28/04)
There aren't enough nurses in the United States. Here's is the American Association of Colleges of Nursing collection of resources on the growing nursing shortage.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Man Who Made Modern America (Thursday, 7/29/04)
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had very different views of what the United States should look like decades or centuries after the formation of the Constitution. Hamilton's view won. The America that we see all around us largely reflects his vision.
The New York Historical Society has constructed a special museum exhibit to honor the Secretary of Treasury who built the American financial system. Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America opens in New York in September.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Historical Maps Online (Friday, 7/30/04)
Illinois and the Northwest Territory have been mapped over and over again during the past 400 years. This collection of Historical Maps Online comes from the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Language Map (Saturday, 7/31/04)
English remains the dominate language in the United States, but has America become a bilingual country? In actual fact, dozens of languages are spoken in the United States, and the Modern Language Association's interactive language map shows how the various speakers are distributed across the country.
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