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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Free File (Tuesday, 3/1/05)
The Internal Revenue Service has formed alliances with a number of companies who are willing to allow you to use their tax preparation software and file your federal return free. In some cases, you may have to pay to process and file your state return, but there are many companies to choose from. Here's more information about the IRS' Free File program.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Buying a Home (Wednesday, 3/2/05)
Here's advice for first-time home buyers from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Great Social Security Debate (Thursday, 3/3/05)
The Christian Science Monitor attempts to clarify issus in the debate over Social Security reform by addressing eight prominent questions.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch between Blacks and Jobs (Friday, 3/4/05)
Where many of the jobs are, many African Americans aren't. This new report from the Brookings Institution analyzes the spacial mismatch between blacks and jobs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jungle Survival (Saturday, 3/5/05)
USA Today offers an informative Q&A that can help you survive in the tax jungle.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Land Tenure Center (Sunday, 3/6/05)
The Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examines land policy throughout the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Mainstreaming of Online Life (Monday, 3/7/05)
This Pew Foundation report examines the extent to which and the ways in which the Internet has become part of mainstream American life during the past decade or so. Among other things, the tremendous penetration of the Internet into American life is shown by a dramatic shift in user demographics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Would you like to become an economist? (Tuesday, 3/8/05)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the United States Department of Labor presents information about the occupation of "economist," including a description of what economists do, what they earn, and how strong the job market is likely to be during the next few years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Brief History of Bankruptcy in the U.S. (Wednesday, 3/9/05)
If you can't pay your debts, you'll no longer be locked in a dungeon, at least not in the U.S. and other major industrial countries, but some people have felt for years that it has been too easy for debtors to walk away from their debts and leave their creditors hanging. However, others believe that many people get in over their heads because of towering medical expenses or other understandable reasons which don't involve irresponsibility and need an opportunity for a fresh start. At any rate, here's a Brief History of Bankruptcy in the U.S. from BankruptyData.com. Given today's news, it seems likely that this history will have to be updated soon.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Latest Billionaire Rankings (Thursday, 3/10/05)
Here's the latest list of the world's billionaires, ranked from the richest of the "rich billionaires" all the way down to the "poor billionaires," as estimated by Forbes magazine. Bill Gates is still on top, and, if it seems as though he's been around as long as most of us can remember, you may be interested to know that he'll finally turn 50 later this year. Incidentally, how many individuals have at least a $1 billion net worth? If you said "620," you're entitled to the coveted NewWork handshake award.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Thomas (Friday, 3/11/05)
You can examine and track the new bankruptcy bill, or any other bill in Congress by consulting Thomas from the Library of Congress. "Thomas," of course, is named after Mr. Jefferson.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bureau of International Information Programs (Saturday, 3/12/05)
The Bureau of International Information Programs became part of the U.S. Department of State in 1999. It is a principal means by which the United States government communicates with a number of elements of the foreign affairs community. Information on its web site is available in multiple languages.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Year of Languages (Sunday, 3/13/05)
English is not the first language of most of the world's people, even though Americans often find it fairly easy to get around in other countries because so many people speak English in addition to their own native languages. Many Americans speak both English and Spanish, and more should. However, if you're interested in learning a second or third language not commonly spoken in North America--and you should be--it might be time to choose on some basis other than habit or tradition. Even though many American high schools and colleges continue to push French and German, mostly because they have people who are capable of teaching those languages, the many good reasons for learning Mandarin and/or Arabic should be obvious from each day's news. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has designated 2005 as the Year of Languages.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Historical Association (Monday, 3/14/05)
It's widely believed, particularly by many Americans, that "history is dead, so why bother with it." On the contrary, we respond to things in terms of how they look to us, and historical context and perspective help determine how they look. Families containing an Alzheimer's patient recognize how devastating it can be when an individual loses his/her memory. The effects can be similar when a society loses its memory. If you're interested in the present and future, it's very important to remember the past. The American Historical Association can help you do that.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Dirty Dozen (Tuesday, 3/15/05)
The Internal Revenue Service describes a dozen of the most popular--and illegal--tax scams. Here's the IRS' "dirty dozen."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top 5 Internet Scams (Wednesday, 3/16/05)
The Internet is surging as an influence in the lives of people throughout much of the world. However, there is growing need to be concerned about "emergent characteristics" which can be expected to appear and cause surprises as any system or network becomes larger and more complex. So, as the Internet grows and opens up new possibilities for people throughout the world, it's creating new opportunities for the world's crooks too. Here are the top 5 current Internet scams, in somebody's judgment.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Paul Wolfowitz (Thursday, 3/17/05)
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has been nominated to be the new president of the World Bank. Here's the Defense Department's biography of him, and here's another biography from Wikipedia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge? (Friday, 3/18/05)
A new report from the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation presents reason to wonder if the United States is losing its leadership position in science and innovation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Taking Action on Climate Change (Saturday, 3/19/05)
The evidence is growing that Earth is becoming a different kind of planet, one that would not be familiar to at least a large number of previous generations. Taking Action on Climate Change is a service of the Government of Canada and offers information as well as advice on what individuals and organizations can do to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Will humanity as a whole respond sufficiently in order to head off global disaster? The evidence isn't terribly encouraging. For one thing, contemporary humans have brains essentially identical to their ancestors over tens of thousands of years. However, Homo Sapiens Sapiens have spent most of their time on Earth in the Stone Age, which is to say that contemporary humans aren't "wired" very appropriately for contemporary environments and their novelties. Not only is the world created by the Industrial Revolution new to the species, humanity is even pretty new at what we call "Civilization."
The modern world that we see all around us is a very recent consequence of the fact that a few members of the species have learned a lot about what it takes to provide trustworthy answers to empirical questions of all kinds. However, most of the world's people still depend in their personal lives on folk culture ideologies with roots in the ancient past. A relatively few recognize what it takes to be right about most things, climate change not excepted.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Low-Income Countries (Sunday, 3/20/05)
Here's a list from the World Bank of the poorest of the poor among the world's countries. The list of low-income countries is defined as those with per capita Gross Domestic Product of $765 or less.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries (Monday, 3/21/05)
One of the fundamental requirements for economic development in poor countries is to prevent debts from growing. Here's the World Bank's site dealing with debt sustainability in low-income countries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development (Tuesday, 3/22/05)
Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development is a 352-page report on how to support rural contributions to national development in regions where rural communities are suffering.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Association of American Universities (Wednesday, 3/23/05)
The Association of American Universities is 105 years old. Now that you can toss a brick in any direction and be very likely to hit somebody with multiple graduate or professional degrees, it may be hard to believe that only 14 American institutions offered the Ph.D. degree in 1900 when the Association started. On the other hand, you may be surprised to learn that the United States managed to get along throughout its first century without any at all. The first American Ph.D. was awarded by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1870s. At any rate, the Association now includes more than 60 North American universities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 100 Best Companies to Work For (Thursday, 3/24/05)
Here's Fortune magazine's newest list of 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Survey of Mexican Migrants (Friday, 3/25/05)
Philadelphia's Pew Foundation has long been involved in a great variety of activities. For instance, here's the Pew Hispanic Center's latest report on Mexican migrants based on a survey of nearly 5,000 people.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State of World Population 2004 (Saturday, 3/26/05)
The 124-page State of World Population 2004 report comes from the United Nations and is available in several languages. A few of humanity's most recent generations have been living in a world that has been far more heavily populated than any of the thousands of previous generations ever experienced.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for Civil Society (Monday, 3/28/05)
Professor Jude Howell heads the Centre for Civil Society at Sir Mick Jagger's old university: the London School of Economics and Political Science. Some of us remember the look on an Oxford don's face when he learned that Michigan State University offers a master's degree in packaging.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Turning Around Downtown: Twelve Steps to Revitalization (Tuesday, 3/29/05)
Many American towns first grew up along rivers, then near railroads. Now, old downtowns have been decimated because businesses have moved out to be near the Interstate highways. In large cities, many people first moved to the old-ring suburbs, and, during recent years, to suburbs further out. Here's a Brookings Institution report on twelve things that can be done to revitalize American downtowns.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New Tactics in Human Rights (Wednesday, 3/30/05)
The New Tactics in Human Rights is a new organization intending to offer practical tools for those working to further human rights throughout the world and is under the direction of the Center for Victims of Torture.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Crisis Group (Thursday, 3/31/05)
Those of us who have thought that the world would become a safer place once the Cold War ended have had to think again. While it has become less likely for life on the planet to be obliterated in a final nuclear exchange between superpowers, threats and the incidence of violence have not diminished. The International Crisis Group is a non-profit organization working to resolve deadly conflicts around the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies (Friday, 4/1/05)
Nobel Laureate Max Planck's contributions to modern physics have been permanently commemorated by naming some of the world's most highly-regarded research organizations after him. In fact, it was at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin that Werner Heisenberg, also a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, conducted his historic work. However, current Max Planck Institutes conduct research that goes considerably beyond physics. For example, here's the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian International Development Agency (Saturday, 4/2/05)
The Canadian International Development Agency is charged by the Canadian government to do what it can to assist poor countries reduce poverty in ways that are effective and sustainable.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of Medicine (Sunday, 4/3/05)
Technology preceded science by tens of thousands of years, but, until the scientific revolution of recent history, which fundamentally transformed knowledge of nature, including human nature, technologies were based on observations made with the unaided sense from the limited perspective of daily life. Little was understood of underlying natural processes.
As recently as 1950, there were many Americans still living who could remember the Civil War when battlefield amputations were still performed with unsterilized instruments and virtually all physicians knew nothing about microscopic life or the causes of infections.
Modern medicine has a long past but a short history. Only a few decades ago, about all a doctor could do for most of his patients was to shake hands and say, "Good luck." Placebos and bedside manner were the principle treatment tools. However, in only a few short decades, modern scientifically-based medicine has become one of the creative triumphs of the species. Now, when you're sick, it's likely that there is a LOT that your doctor can do. Here's much more about the history of medicine from the National Institutes of Health.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune 500 (Monday, 4/4/05)
Here's the latest Fortune 500, the listing of America's largest corporations. Guess who's still at the top of the list. Hint: It's a retailing organization with a hyphenated name.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Help Preparing Your Taxes (Tuesday, 4/5/05)
Here's help from the Internal Revenue Service in preparing your taxes and filing electronically.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Where are they now? (Wednesday, 4/6/05)
The pop culture audience often is interested in "Why are they now?" features in magazines and on television shows, but former celebrities may not be particularly enthusiastic if they've fallen on hard times. Most don't like to read about themselves in articles that may say something like, "Former film star Don Handsome is now working at a car wash in Sioux Falls, South Dakota." Nonetheless, publicity, hype, and self-promotion are the life-blood of popular entertainment, so people who make it in that business have no alternative but to accept tabloid and other press attention when it hurts personally as well as when they seek it out to help boost their careers.
However, the careers of business leaders and entrepreneurs aren't necessarily as dependent on publicity as entertainment people, and many avoid press attention when they can. Here's Fortune magazine's "Where are they now?" feature that looks at the recent activities of eleven formerly high-profile business leaders.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: StudentJobs.gov (Thursday, 4/7/05)
If you're a student, you may very well be able to work for the federal government. StudentJobs.gov can tell you how. The site is presented by the United States Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Department of Education's Student Financial Assistance office.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The UN's Role in Nation Building (Friday, 4/8/05)
The RAND Corporation was established after World War II, and, in the process, more-or-less constituted the invention of the modern "think tank." It did a great of Cold War research, and, following the end of the Cold War, shifted its focus, but it still a very important research organization. Here's an important RAND report from James Dobbins on the role of the United Nations in nation building.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WHO's members (Saturday, 4/9/05)
That's not a question, and it isn't part of an Abbott and Costello routine. "WHO," in this case, stands for the World Health Organization. Here is a listing of its 192 member nations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Great Transatlantic Cable (Sunday, 4/10/05)
The Internet ties the world together like never before, but a first major step in that direction was accomplished just after the end of the American Civil War. Here's the companion web site on the laying of the Great Transatlantic Cable that goes with the new PBS documentary.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune's CEO quiz (Monday, 4/11/05)
How much do you know about American corporate CEOs? Okay, how much TRIVIAL information do you know about them? For your entertainment, not necessarily your edification, here's Fortune magazine's CEO quiz.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: What Is the Nasdaq? (Tuesday, 4/12/05)
It's where hi-tech stocks are traded? Well, much more than that. Here's an explanation of the Nasdaq from the editors of the Motley Fool.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Special Report on Retirement (Wednesday, 4/13/05)
The New York Times has prepared a special section on retirement which includes multiple articles.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tackling Nurse Shortages in OECD Countries (Thursday, 4/14/05)
There is a growing shortage of nurses in the United States, but that's only part of the picture. Similar shortages can be found in places such as Italy and Japan. In fact, the many members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are suffering shortages of health care professionals generally, but particularly nurses. Here's what OECD countries are trying to do about it.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: TaxTime (Friday, 4/15/05)
On tax day, here's TaxTime, a special report from the Washington Post.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing (Saturday, 4/16/05)
Here's the good news: Many major American urban centers have recovered during the past ten years. But, here's the bad news: Many Americans can no longer afford to live in the cities in which they work. From the Department of Housing and Urban Development, here's a report on how barriers to affordable housing might be removed.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Council of American Overseas Research Centers (Sunday, 4/17/05)
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers enables scholars to conduct research in a great variety of host countries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Harlem History (Monday, 4/18/05)
Harlem History is a multimedia site from Columbia University tracing the development and culture of the most famous African-American neighborhood in the U.S.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Piggy Bank Wrapper (Tuesday, 4/19/05)
Here's a way to make a coffee can into a piggy bank in order to help your very young begin making saving a life-long habit. Just print out this piggy bank wrapper, and your child can start learning the basic truths of personal finance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Overview of Inflation (Wednesday, 4/20/05)
If you're a little unclear about what inflation is and how it's measured, here's an overview from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Primer on Gasoline Prices (Thursday, 4/21/05)
What determines the cost of gasoline at the pump? How much of it is becausse of the price of crude oil? How much is tax? How much is profit? Here's much of what you've probably wanted to know about what you're paying at the pump from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Women Tech World: Role Models (Friday, 4/22/05)
Here are a large number of biographies and stories about women who work in a wide range of technical occupations from the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory (Saturday, 4/23/05)
Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Exposure Research Laboratory develop increasingly effective means of measuring, assessing, and predicting the influence of environmental contaminants.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fed 101 (Sunday, 4/24/05)
Fed 101 is an educational site maintained by the Federal Reserve to help students and other interested persons understand what the Fed is, what it does, and how it came to be, as well as many important issues relating to money in general. The site is interactive and includes games.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Inventions and Innovations (Monday, 4/25/05)
If you're an inventor interested in the development of greater energy efficiencies as well as renewable energy technologies, the Department of Energy's Inventions and Innovation site may be a valuable resource for you.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ASEAN Jobs (Tuesday, 4/26/05)
Among the large number of jobs sites on the Internet, this one is special in that it focuses on bringing employers and employees together within the context of the Association of South East Asian Nations. Here's ASEAN Jobs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canada Gazette (Wednesday, 4/27/05)
Canada Gazette is an official publication of the Canadian government. It provides information for individuals as well as organizations on laws, regulations, and legal requirements.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment Development Department (Thursday, 4/28/05)
California's Employment Development Department offers information and services for job seekers, employers, persons with disabilities, older workers, and others interested in job market trends and most other things having to do with work in the nation's most populous state.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy (Friday, 4/29/05)
Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy was inspired by a recent conference sponsored, in part, by the National Science Foundation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (Saturday, 4/30/05)
If you've heard of the Bureau of Applied Social Research from Columbia University, you already know a bit about the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, because it is its successor. On its site, you will find much information about its research activities, as well as full-text articles, and more.
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