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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Best Employers for Workers Over 50 (Wednesday, 9/1/04)
AARP, which used to stand for "American Association of Retired Persons," will solicit your membership about 90 seconds after you turn 50, an age at which most people don't feel they're anywhere near retirement. As evidence that the huge lobbying organization of older Americans probably was wise to make an official name change some years ago, here's ARPS's latest listing of the 35 best employers for workers over age 50.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WorkZoo (Thursday, 9/2/04)
WorkZoo is a meta-search service that allows you to search a number of job sites at once. It can save you having to visit all the sites individually with your queries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Airline Handbook (Friday, 9/3/04)
The full text of the Airline Handbook is published online by the Air Transport Association, which was founded in 1936 and which remains a key organization of the major airlines.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Social Research (Saturday, 9/4/04)
The great Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan has been gathering and analyzing research data across several social sciences for more than half a century.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Census of Population and Housing (Sunday, 9/5/04)
The United States Census Bureau has been making an increasing amount of Census data available to the general public via the Internet. Its Census of Population and Housing site now offers access to the Census, beginning with the first in 1790 and the latest in 2000, with a dozen others in between. The process of making additional data available in this way is continuing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jobs, Wages, and the Economy (Monday, 9/6/04)
Here's the AFL-CIO's current perspective on Jobs, Wages, and the Economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Transportation Futuristics (Wednesday, 9/8/04)
Transportation Futuristics from the University of California, Berkeley offers ideas about alternative ways of getting from point A to point B, some of them quite novel and nonobvious.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Startup Journal (Thursday, 9/9/04)
Startup Journal is a service for entrepreneurs from the Wall Street Journal.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Studies (Friday, 9/10/04)
The Economics Studies program at Washington, D. C.'s Brookings Institution monitors the global economy while also analyzing economic policy issues affecting the United States and the rest of world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Vanishing Protestant Majority (Monday, 9/13/04)
Because the United States originally grew out of British colonies, and Britain, by that time, was a solidly Protestant country, a majority of the U.S. population has been Protestant throughout its history, despite several waves of immigration from non-Protestant, even non-European regions of the world.
However, all that seems to be changing now. America is becoming more diverse in nearly every way. For instance, it is said that there are about 1.5 million Hindus living in the United States now, and far more Buddhists and even more Muslims.
Research from the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center indicates that the U.S. soon will no longer have a Protestant majority for the first time in its history. This may have economic implications, particularly if there really ever has been such a thing as a "Protestant ethic" and if it has played a role in making the United States the world's pre-eminent economic engine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Oil and Gas Job Search (Tuesday, 9/14/04)
Oil and Gas Job Search is based in the United Kingdom but works to bring industry employers and workers together throughout the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Wednesday, 9/15/04)
Headquartered in Vienna, the OCSE is the largest regional security organization in the world with 55 members. In addition to much information about its mission and policies, the site also lists current employment opportunities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Prescription Price Comparisons (Thursday, 9/16/04)
The Administration has added a price comparison feature to the Medicare site to allow you to compare prices for similar brand-name medications.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nursing Home Compare (Monday, 9/20/04)
Medicare's Nursing Home Compare allows you to compare nursing homes by geographical location, as well as by name.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bankruptcy: An Overview (Tuesday, 9/21/04)
Cornell University's Legal Information Institute provides an overview of bankruptcy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers (Wednesday, 9/22/04)
Here's the latest list of 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers from Working Mothers magazine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Participating Physician Directory (Thursday, 9/23/04)
Here's the federal government's directory of physicians that participate in the Medicare program.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 400 Richest Americans (Friday, 9/24/04)
Here's the latest list of the 400 richest Americans from Forbes magazine. Though not yet 50, Bill Gates is still number 1. However, Warren Buffet, who is in his 70s, has been gaining on Mr. Gates, in large part because Gates has been falling back.
During the 1990s before the dot-com bubble burst and before the Justice Department began trying to break up Microsoft Corporation, there was a brief period during which Billionaire Bill's net worth was estimated at $100 billion. Now, he's worth "only" $48 billion, according to Forbes.
There are numerous reasons to believe that Microsoft Corporation's rapid growth is behind it and that it may even be in the later stages of its life-cycle in the "wild-west" world of hi-tech. The fact that Microsoft has had to scramble to fix one security flaw after another in its Windows operating system at the same time that Linux has been growing in prominence probably hasn't made Mr. Gates sleep more peacefully.
Incidentally, Michael Dell is only 39-years-old and is ranked as the eight-richest person in the United States. He began assembling and selling mail-order computers from his dorm room while a student at the University of Texas in Austin. He has said that, in a large complex organization, nobody really knows what you're doing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Historical Directories (Saturday, 9/25/04)
The UK's University of Leicester has compiled an extensive digital library of historical directories covering England and Wales from 1750 to 1919.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Access to Social Services (Monday, 9/27/04)
Here's a report from the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution that examines the access that poor people have to social services as a function of geography. Brown University Professor Scott Allard conducted the study which focused on Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D. C.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RateMyProfessors.com (Tuesday, 9/28/04)
As we've pointed out numerous times, the nearly one-thousand-year-old university institution and its more recently-established satellite institutions--e.g., liberal arts colleges, community colleges--are undergoing profound changes within a vast sea of societal change.
For one thing, there is growing competition from for-profit online institutions which are achieving full accreditation. As the Sun Microsystems corporate slogan says, "The Internet changes everything." Also, as this is written, RateMyProfessors.com claims that its site provides more than 2 million student ratings of more than 400 thousand professors at more than 4 thousand schools. It is reminiscent of schools during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance periods which were run by students who hired and fired their professors.
As academic Vice President Dr. David Mathieu rightly has pointed out, American society has gone out of its way to protect "intellectual freedom" at colleges and universities by allowing private accreditation (i.e., self-regulation) in lieu of having government "thought police" posted in each classroom.
Moreover, tenure at universities has provided political protection thought necessary for professors who may choose to examine or teach unpopular ideas, because, it has been thought, society can only benefit from free inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. Of course, critics, including many students, have claimed that the tenure system also allows professors who have died many years before falling over to continue working in American college and university classrooms.
The privatization of higher education, including the growing role of for-profit institutions which are likely to be run more along corporate than traditional academic lines, is likely to exert increasing pressure on traditional institutions to change their policies as well, including ones intending to protect "academic freedom." It's important to keep in mind that there is no Constitutional guarantee of "academic freedom" that goes beyond the First Amendment, which applies to everybody, not just professors or students. "Academic freedom," like private accreditation, is simply part of American academic tradition, and during a period of wrenching change, is subject to alteration.
With as much change occurring in a few years as used to require centuries or millennia, it's probably unwise to take anything for granted.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment in Europe 2004 (Wednesday, 9/29/04)
Here's the 16th annual Employment in Europe report, this time tracing trends in the enlarged European Union.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Development Report 2005 (Thursday, 9/30/04)
The World Development Report 2005 is available in print from the World Bank for $26.00.
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