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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Community Survey (Tuesday, 3/2/04)
The American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau is intended to supplement the decennial census for policymakers in government and business, as well as members of the public.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Hydrogen Economy (Wednesday, 3/3/04)
Will hydrogen become a major fuel over the next half-century? Can it? What would be the consequences? National Academies addresses these issues in the Hydrogen Economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Total Midyear Population for the World: 1950-2050 (Thursday, 3/4/04)
From the U.S. Census Bureau, here is information about global population as it has been for about a half-century, and as it is likely to be during the half-century ahead. According to these data, the highest annual growth rates were during the 1960s and early 1970s. World population has been leveling off, but it's still going to get a lot more crowded during the remainder of the lives of most of us. However, population growth isn't uniformly distributed over the globe. In general, the poorest countries have the greatest population increases, while some countries, such as Japan, even expect to lose population over the years ahead.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workplace Safety and Health (Friday, 3/5/04)
Here's much of what you may want to know about Workplace Safety and Health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State of the World's Children 2004 (Saturday, 3/6/04)
UNICEF's 2004 report on the State of the World's Children concentrates on the education of girls this time.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Sunday, 3/7/04)
The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics is published by Edward Elgar Publishing and the University of Ghent. It contains 5,000 pages organized in 172 chapters, all freely downloadable. However, if you intend to refer to it frequently, the print version may be more convenient.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EconDash (Monday, 3/8/04)
EconDash offers the American economy at a glance through the use of dashboard-like dials.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Health Economics (Tuesday, 3/9/04)
Health Economics is a journal that is both downloadable on line and available in print. However, the web site also offers an "Early View" of articles before they have been published on paper.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money 101 Glossary (Wednesday, 3/10/04)
The Money 101 Glossary provides 7,200 definitions of financial terms, but lacks a search capability.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Why does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? (Thursday, 3/11/04)
There are reasons. In fact, the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein explores four possibilities in his 20-page paper: chronological, cultural, institutional, and realist.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Arab American Demographics (Friday, 3/12/04)
The Arab American Institute reports that at least 3.5 million Americans are of Arab descent, and immigration from Arabic-speaking countries began in the late 1880s. Much more information can be found on the Institute's Arab American Demographics site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Native Americans--Internet Resources (Saturday, 3/13/04)
James Madison University presents access to Internet resources having to do with Native Americans.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tickle.com (Sunday, 3/14/04)
Tickle.com offers a variety of personality tests online for many purposes, some work- or career-related. Do the tests have satisfactory psychometric properties--e.g., statistical reliability and validity--so that their results can be taken seriously? We have no idea, but we do know that it's a very important question. The tests used by psychology professionals have undergone years of research and development, and that's what it takes.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office of Immigration Statistics (Monday, 3/15/04)
The Office of Immigration Statistics is one of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Evaluations of Continuums of Care for Homeless People (Tuesday, 3/16/04)
This 216-page report from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development examines the continuums of care for homeless people throughout the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways (Wednesday, 3/17/04)
Some urban areas have served for many years as conduits through which immigrants have entered American society, while others are quite new. Audrey Singer of the Brookings Institution examines the rise of new immigrant gateways in this 36-page report.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Famous British Wills (Thursday, 3/18/04)
For those who haven't found a way to take it with them, the problem of reliably transferring property to descendants has been lessened along with the development of law in Western Civilization over the centuries. The British have made important contributions to the develop of law generally, and to last wills and testaments in particular. If you've always wondered if you have been mentioned in the will of a famous person, the UK's national archives now offers you an opportunity to examine famous British wills.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Future of Work (Friday, 3/19/04)
In the future, what kinds of jobs have the best chance of paying well and remaining in the United States? Researchers at MIT and Harvard have been examining this question, and Business Week reports some of their findings.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Comm-Org (Saturday, 3/20/04)
Comm-Org began at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an online resource for persons interested in community organizing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Firmbuilder.com (Sunday, 3/21/04)
Firmbuilder.com is a service of Michael F. Corbett & Associates and assists firms with the outsourcing process. Among many other things, the site's front page includes an article called "Putting Offshore Outsourcing in Perspective."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune 500 (Monday, 3/21/04)
Here's the latest Fortune 500 list of largest corporations from Fortune magazine. For the third year in a row, Wal-Mart is the largest of the largest, and General Motors has dropped to number 3. In the 50 years that the Fortune 500 has existed, 1,877 companies have appeared on the list.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Women's History: A Research Guide (Tuesday, 3/22/04)
American Women's History: A Research Guide has been updated and expanded to include more than 2,000 citations, as well as hundreds of links to digitized items.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Measuring Child Well-Being: A New Index (Wednesday, 3/23/04)
The Brookings Institution and Duke University have developed a new index for measuring child well-being. It's based on 30 years of data and provides information on how American children are doing now compared to previous years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: GlobalHealth.gov (Thursday, 3/24/04)
GlobalHealth.gov is an information-rich site from the United States Department of Health and Human Services and focuses on the connection between domestic and international health issues, including travel information.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Antitrust Division (Friday, 3/26/04)
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice is charged with the enforcement of antitrust laws in order to protect and promote business competition.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AARP Tax-Aide (Saturday, 3/27/04)
It's time to make use of AARP's Tax-Aide, which is likely to be of most interest to lower- and middle-income taxpayers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Equal Opportunity Publications (Sunday, 3/28/04)
Equal Opportunity Publications has published career magazines for women, members of minority groups, and people with disabilities since 1968. Their site also enables readers to post resumes which are accessible to companies that advertise in their magazines.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Biggest tax scofflaws (Monday, 3/29/04)
The April 2004 edition of The Atlantic contains a listing of the "10 biggest tax scofflaws so far this century." Here's a Minneapolis Star Tribune news item about the article, and you can obtain the original online from The Atlantic, but it will cost you.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work-Life Balance Campaign (Tuesday, 3/30/04)
The Work-Life Balance Campaign was started by the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry in the year 2000.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workplace Suicides (Wednesday, 3/31/04) (Wednesday, 3/31/04)
Here is an analysis of the 2,170 workplace suicides that have occurred in the United States between 1992 and 2001 from the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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