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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Figures on Government Spending and Debt (Monday, 11/1/04)
Here are the latest government spending and debt figures, but, before you conclude that things have gotten dramatically better, be sure to add six zeros to all the numbers shown.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Teen Analyst (Tuesday, 11/2/04)
TeenAnalyst.com offers up-to-date information and guidance for very young investors and entrepreneurs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Odden's Bookmarks (Wednesday, 11/3/04)
Some years ago, a national poll found that of the American adults surveyed, something like one of seven or one of eight couldn't locate the United States on a world map. These people quite literally didn't know where on earth they were. They might benefit from consulting Odden's Bookmarks from the map library at Utrecht University where they will find more than 22,000 links to maps and assorted data.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Losing Ground (Thursday, 11/4/04)
According to research conducted by the Brookings Institution, the economic circumstances of people in upstate New York have been deteriorating during recent years. Here's their 20-page report: Losing Ground: Income and Poverty in Upstate New York, 1980-2000.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Looking FAR Ahead (Friday, 11/5/04)
A new report from the United Nations attempts the best guestimate of world population in the year 2300, acknowledging that it's a tricky business perhaps analogous to forecasting next year's weather. How much of the world that we see around us each day could have been anticipated 300 years ago? At any rate, here's where you can obtain the report, and here's a news story about it from Nick Wadhams.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Chronic Teacher Turnover in Urban Elementary Schools Saturday, 11/6/04)
The University of Washington's Kacey Guin examined the characteristics of urban elementary schools that are associated with high teacher turnover. The research is reported in Chronic Teacher Turnover in Urban Elementary Schools.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Adoption News (Sunday, 11/7/04)
Many Americans have adopted or are interested in adopting children from other parts of the world. Dr. Ellen Fitzenrider draws on her personal experience as an adoptive parent as well as her professional expertise with the hope of assisting others in her International Adoption News site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Crime in the United States: 2003 (Monday, 11/8/04)
Here's an opportunity to read more than 500 pages on Crime in the United States: 2003 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Among the findings, violent crime in the U.S. has declined by a quarter during the past ten years, perhaps attributable, at least in part, to the aging of America. Most violent crimes are committed by young males, and their numbers have been diminishing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Bruner Foundation (Tuesday, 11/9/04)
Since 1986, the Bruner Foundation has promoted and provided recognition for creative solutions to urban development problems.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Poverty Monitoring (Wednesday, 11/10/04)
The World Bank acknowledges the difficulty in gathering reliable information about the nature, extent, and distribution of poverty throughout the world, but engages in Global Poverty Monitoring, nonetheless, and shares its findings with you on their web site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ireland's Economy (Thursday, 11/11/04)
Here are statistics summarizing Ireland's Economy from GeoInvestor.com, a creation of financial journalist, Bill Kucewicz.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government (Friday, 11/12/04)
You want to work for the federal government? Are you sure? Some jobs are better than others and some agencies of the government are better than others--as places to work, that is. The Partnership for Public Service and the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation have LOTS of advice on the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Generation Broke (Saturday, 11/13/04)
Many young persons have been sinking deeper, even though they've been borrowing in an effort to stay afloat. Here's a report on the rise of credit card debt among young Americans.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Information Center (Sunday, 11/14/04)
The Federal Reserve Board's National Information Center provides information on banks and other financial institutions for which the Fed has regulatory or other responsibility.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Pension Service (Monday, 11/15/04)
The Pension Service is part of the United Kingdom's Department of Work and Pensions and offers access to information, advice, and materials for those planning, approaching, or experiencing retirement, as well as others.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Christian Community Service Center (Tuesday, 11/16/04)
Martha's Way is only one part of the Christian Community Service Center which is a coalition of 37 churches and 1,900 volunteers committed to serving needy people in the Houston community.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Resources for Economists on the Internet (Wednesday, 11/17/04)
SUNY Professor Bill Goffe is editor of Resources for Economists on the Internet, which is sponsored by the American Economic Association and lists more than 1,500 resources.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of the United States Department of Commerce (Thursday, 11/18/04)
The United States Departments of Commerce and Labor were established in 1903 during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Here's the Commerce Department's look at its own history.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Health Council (Friday, 11/19/04)
Since 1972, the Global Health Council has monitored health issues throughout the world and reported to interested parties, including government. The organization originally was called the National Council of International Health.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Ten Degrees in Demand (Saturday, 11/20/04)
CNN/Money present information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers about the ten college degrees that are likely to be in most demand by employers next spring.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Sunday, 11/21/04)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was created by the federal government during the 1960s. The Commission investigates discrimination claims and shows how to file them. Its site also includes a number of special reports.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 50 Largest U.S. Charities (Monday, 11/22/04)
The Christian Science Monitor tells about the 50 largest charities in the United States. Here is the list and the details.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Most Expensive Colleges (Tuesday, 11/23/04)
If you've been trying to find a way to spend a little more money, you may want to consider attending one of America's most expensive colleges. It may or may not result in your receiving a higher quality education than you will receive at less expensive institutions, or, for that matter, at the public library, but, at least, you'll be able to brag about how much money you are able to squander.
Oscar Wilde wrote about people who "know the price of everything and the value of nothing," and Americans have a long tradition of believing that something is worth more if they can manage to pay more for it. It helps explain why there's always a market for precisely the same products in factory-sealed cartons sold for more in fancy stores than in discount stores.
If you believe that you can add value to knowledge by paying more for it, you're in luck, because there are plenty of "fancy boutique" higher education organizations that will be happy to accept your money and help you believe that an understanding of "general relativity," say, is worth more if you have obtained it by attending one of America's most expensive colleges than by some other means in some other context.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Urban Ecology (Wednesday, 11/24/04)
When you think of "ecology," you probably don't think of urban areas. However, since 1975, some knowledgeable and influential people have been doing just that. Their Urban Ecology site offers a variety of resources and plans, as well as access to The Urban Ecologist, its quarterly newsletter.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Economics Classroom (Thursday, 11/25/04)
The Annenberg Foundation, in conjunction with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, know a thing or two about education. Among many other things, they're responsible for Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo's celebrated 26-part "Discovering Psychology" series, which has appeared on PBS numerous times and which has become a standard in college and university psychology courses throughout the English-speaking world, currently in revised and updated form. Now, the Annenberg/CPB folks have help for those of you who teach secondary school economics. Here's the Economics Classroom.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Legal Information Institute (Friday, 11/26/04)
Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute was established in 1992, and its web site contains information of interest to specialists as well as curious casual beginners.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Trade Statistics (Friday, 11/26/04)
Who's trading what with whom? Here are more International Trade Statistics than you may imagine from the World Trade Organization.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Legal Information Institute (Saturday, 11/27/04)
Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute was established in 1992, and its web site contains information of interest to specialists as well as curious casual beginners.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: They Made America (Sunday, 11/28/04)
The They Made America site is a companion to the four-part PBS series on American inventors and their impact on American life and economics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Getting the Best College Buy (Monday, 11/29/04)
Getting the Best College Buy begins with a Q&A, but also includes a point-by-point guide for getting the most out of your college buck.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor (Tuesday, 11/30/04)
If you would like to keep warm this winter and not spend ALL of your money doing it, you may want to consult the Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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