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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Administration for Children and Families (Tuesday, 6/1/04)
The United States Department of Health & Human Services maintains the Administration for Children and Families for the purpose of administering federal programs for the economic and social well-being of families and children.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The UN & Business (Wednesday, 6/2/04)
The United Nations cultivates partnerships with the private sector as well as foundations. Here's their UN & Business site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Trade Policy Studies (Thursday, 6/3/04)
Here's the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute which claims to exist in order to increase "public understanding of the benefits of free trade and the cost of protectionism," which implies that this is a "think-tank" that starts with answers rather than with questions. At any rate, the Cato Institute has been identified more with libertarian than conservative ideology. Presumably, it was named after the Roman politician who, during the second and third centuries B.C.E., attempted to bring simplicity to Roman life.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment Resources in the Earth, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Friday, 6/4/04)
If you're seeking employment in any of the multitude of scientific fields relating to our planet, you may want to begin your search at Employment Resources in the Earth, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Syracuse University.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for Economic Performance (Saturday, 6/5/04)
Since its founding in 1990, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science has been focusing on the relationships among globalization, technology, and institutions, among other things. Incidentally, the London School of Economics is where that great economist, Mick Jagger, went to school. At least, he seems to know something about money.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates (Sunday, 6/6/04)
Here are all of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize from Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy in 1901 to Shirin Ebadi in 2003.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American President (Monday, 6/7/04)
If you're interested in learning more about President Reagan now that he and his presidency are very much on a lot of American minds, a good place to go is American President on the web, developed at the University of Virginia. While you're there, you can check out the 42 other men who have served as president.
Whoops, no, that's not right. There were 41, because one of the men had non-consecutive presidential terms. If you know which one, you are entitled to the coveted NewWork News handshake award. Hint: His last name is the same as the name of a large American city. No, he was not President Minneapolis.
Also, Regis, here's a "fastest finger" question for you to use: Four American presidents were assassinated. Listed here in alphabetcal order by last name, they were James Garfield, John Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley. Arrange them in the order of their ages at their deaths, beginning with the youngest. If you get this right, you're entitled to the NewWork News handshake with both hands.
Oh, okay, since you insist, here's the answer: Kennedy (46), Garfield (50), Lincoln (56), and McKinley (58).
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (Tuesday, 6/8/04)
The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization was established by the International Labor Organization, an agency of the United Nations, in 2002.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Research Center Update (Wednesday, 6/9/04)
The National Education Association higher education section's Research Center Update enables you to download a number of full-length research reports.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Labour Standards (Thursday, 6/10/04)
The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations, says that its original raison d'etre as an organization was the establishment of international labour standards. Here's what the ILO says about the origin, nature, and purposes, among other things.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Research and Data (Friday, 6/11/04)
Here's the Economic Research and Data from the Federal Reserve Board.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online (Saturday, 6/12/04)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online from the Canadian government is intended to promote security in the food system as well as environmental quality and economic growth.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (Sunday, 6/13/04)
Name three relatively new, wealthy, industrialized countries which still have major identifiable indigenous populations plus vast land areas which tend to attract immigrants from much of the world. Also, which of these countries has a Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs?
Here are the answers: 1) Australia, Canada, and the United States, and 2) Australia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Causes of Poverty (Monday, 6/14/04)
Anup Shah of Global Issues.org examines what he regards as the causes of poverty.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Economics Study Center (Tuesday, 6/15/04)
Here's George Washington University economics professor Steve Suranovic's International Economics Study Center.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2004 Wealth Report (Wednesday, 6/16/04)
The 2004 Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch and Capgemini finds that the number of people in the world who have assets worth U.S. $1 million, excluding the value of their homes, increased by 7 percent during 2003.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Fund for Agricultural Development (Thursday, 6/17/04)
The International Fund for Agricultural Development, an agency of the United Nations, was established 26 years ago in order to assist in the process of alleviating rural poverty and improving nutrition.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Trade Negotiations Home Page (Friday, 6/18/04)
The Global Trade Negotiations Home Page from Harvard's Center for International Development offers news, perspective on issues, as well as an opportunity to contribute papers and other materials.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Trade-Related Issues (Saturday, 6/19/04)
The author of the Trade-Related Issues page from the Global Issues website attempts to make a case for the "misconceptions and unfairness in the current model for global trading."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Globalisation Guide (Sunday, 6/20/04)
The Globalisation Guide from the Australian Apec Study Centre at Monash University in Melbourne has been prepared by people who believe that globalisation is a force for good in the world, but they attempt to provide information and arguments both pro an con.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Percent Change Calculator (Monday, 6/21/04)
The Percent Change Calculator from NewsEngin offers a very quick and simple way to determine how much any numerical amount has increased or decreased.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Chicago Metropolis 2020 (Tuesday, 6/22/04)
In the broad span of history, an event of 200 years ago is really like about a week ago Thursday. A stroll through somebody's living room in Pompeii, Italy, which was last occupied by the family that owned the house on August 24, AD 79, tends to put America's brief history into perspective. It may still seem as though that ancient Roman family has just stepped out for a few minutes and will return soon to wonder who in hell these strangers are and why they're wandering through their house.
At the time of the first U.S. Census in 1790, Philadelphia was the largest city in the United States with a population of about 28,000, essentially equal to the number of students that the University of Wisconsin system graduated in 2002. Similarly, when Abraham Lincoln was practicing law in Illinois, Chicago's population was fewer than 30,000 people, about twice the size of little Jamestown, North Dakota today, and there are Americans still living who have talked to people who knew the Lincolns in Springfield.
If you have visited or even tried to drive through the Chicago metropolitan region lately, you will know that things have changed profoundly during what really is a brief period of time. The Commercial Club of Chicago presented an influential plan for the city's development in 1909, and has developed a new plan recently. Here's what the Club envisions for the Chicago metropolis in 2020.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Purple Ocean (Wednesday, 6/23/04)
The Internet makes it possible for people to get in touch with one another over huge areas, and, in fact, establish new kinds of communities. Purple Ocean, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, sees itself as a radically new way of organizing workers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor Cost Calculator (Thursday, 6/24/04)
What will it cost you to complete a project? North Carolina State University's William Deluca can help you answer that question with his Labor Cost Calculator.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Is Your Job Going Offshore? (Friday, 6/25/04)
Is Your Job Going Offshore? is a site that claims to examine the effect of globalization on your career. It offers articles as well as forums to enable "members" and "guests" to exchange ideas and opinions.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Russia's Economy (Saturday, 6/26/04)
Here is a collection of articles dealing with Russia's economy from The Economist magazine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics (Sunday, 6/27/04)
What does it mean? Here's a glossary of international economics terms from University of Michigan economics professor Alan Deardorff.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money Matters (Monday, 6/28/04)
Here's the Money Matters page from Senior Journal.com.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Institute on Aging (Tuesday, 6/29/04)
The National Institute on Aging is one of the National Institutes of Health and part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Poverty and Development Economics (Wednesday, 6/30/04)
Here are many suggested references on Global Poverty and Development Economics from the famed Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution.
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