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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Should I consolidate my debts? (Wednesday, 6/1/05)
Should I consolidate my debts? is a calculator that can help you decide if you'll be better off with one big debt rather than several smaller ones.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Community Development Programs (Thursday, 6/2/05)
Here is a description of Community Development Programs from the USDA, which, of course, stands for "United States Department of Agriculture," so the site is about rural development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Amnesty International Report 2005 (Friday, 6/3/05)
Here's Amnesty International's latest report. It's the one that has upset U.S. government officials because of what the organization says about American policy at its detention centers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Extension Project Collection (Saturday, 6/4/05)
The Broward County Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has preserved, digitized, and put online hundreds of educational aids from the Work Progress Administration's Museum Extension Project from the 1930s and 1940s.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HyperHistory Online (Sunday, 6/5/05)
HyperHistory Online attempts to make full use of Vannevar Bush's hypertext concept, on which the Internet is based, combining it with timelines, maps, and other devices to provide a synchronistic view of 3,000 years of history. The site contains 2,000 files.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Lifetime earnings based on education (Monday, 6/6/05)
There is what researchers call a "strong, positive correlation" between formal education and lifetime earnings in the United States. The more advanced your highest degree, the more you're likely to earn.
Also, WHERE you go to school makes a difference too, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what you KNOW or what you can DO. That is, one of the advantages of attending Harvard, say, is that you may have an opportunity to share a dorm room with a member of a famous or influential family, and this should improve your networking options considerably when you get around to searching for a job after graduation. We'd be interested in knowing what the correlation would be if all of the influential factors having nothing to do with education itself were "partialed" out first. As we've said, it's still possible to obtain an excellent education for nothing at the public library, if it's about actual LEARNING, that is, rather than something else.
At any rate, if you're thinking more about the extrinsic value of higher education right now than its intrinsic value, here are some comparative averages showing what you might expect to earn during a lifetime at various diploma or degree levels as offered by John McIntyre of the Detroit Free Press. Remember that these are averages, and that there is considerable variability on both sides of them.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Tuesday, 6/7/05)
It is said that Shanghai now adds about as many people to its population each year as the total population of Chicago. Still, in the U.S., at least, Chicago is a very big town, and, of course, it has a colorful and interesting history, even though it doesn't go back all that far. There are people still living who have talked to people who remembered the Lincolns in Springfield before they went to Washington. At the time Lincoln was practicing as one of the Midwest's first big-time corporate lawyers, Chicago was not too much more than a few cracks in dirt roads along a big lake.
Nonetheless, Chicago has played an important part in American history, particularly since the great period of industrialization got underway during the latter half of the 19th century. If you would like to learn more, you certainly could do far worse than consult the Encyclopedia of Chicago History.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office of Postsecondary Education (Wednesday, 6/8/05)
The Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) is part of the United States Department of Education. It has responsibility for formulating administration policy, and, among other things, the OPE administers the higher education accreditation process.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Wealth Report (Thursday, 6/9/05)
Here's the ninth annual World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch and the Capgemini Group. This site provides a summary, but you can also download the original report, if you like. The latest Report shows an increase of more than eight percent in the number of persons in the world with at least $1 million in net assets, excluding their primary residence. Worldwide, about 8.3 million people are "millionaires," according to the report, 600,000 more than during the previous year. Still, many people with a million dollars in assets don't feel wealthy, because a million isn't nearly what it used to be.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Caribbean Development in the 21st Century (Friday, 6/10/05)
Here's the World Bank's 303-page report on Caribbean Development in the 21st Century.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mixed Communities in England (Saturday, 6/11/05)
Many American neighborhoods are fairly homogeneous, whether they be "Sun City" kinds of places where residents are of similar age, or lower-income trailer parks. Overall, in the U.S., there have been strong forces isolating the socioeconomic classes from one another as well as the generations. What happens when communities are more diverse?
England has a long history of mixed communities. For instance, during the Victorian period, rich and poor often lived in close proximity to one another. Here's a report on mixed communities from the Brookings Institution and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Board on Agriculture & Natural Resources (Sunday, 6/12/05)
The Board on Agriculture & Natural Resources has been providing expert advice on natural resource development since early in the 20th century.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Elements of Style Monday, 6/13/05)
William Strunk's classic book, The Elements of Style, was first published in 1918 and should still be on every conscientious writer's shelf--except that this is 2005, and the Internet offers a convenient alternative to the "dead tree media." Mr. Strunk's excellent little book is among thousands readily available on your screen where you're reading this right now.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: African Business Daily (Tuesday, 6/14/05)
From all the best evidence, we're all Africans, if we trace our ancestry back far enough. Yes, the great continent contains many problems--the AIDS pandemic, explosive population growth, poverty and famine, civil war, recent genocide--but it also has a rich history that has been selectively distorted by European colonists and their descendants, as well as millions of people who are prepared to take full advantage of any economic opportunities that arise. For a good overview of commerce on the huge African continent, you can read the African Business Daily online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers (Wednesday, 6/15/05)
It isn't necessary to be a teacher in order to make productive use of the Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers. This informative collection comes to you from the Illinois Labor History Society and is located at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office of Personnel Management: Salaries and Wages (Thursday, 6/16/05)
What can you earn by working for the feds? The Office of Personnel Management is the federal government's human resources service, and here is its Salaries and Wages page.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Committee on Ways and Means (Friday, 6/17/05)
The Committee on Ways and Means is part of the United States House of Representatives and has several sub-committees that focus on issues of special interest to many NewWork News readers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Organization of American States (Saturday, 6/18/05)
Nearly two-dozen countries formed the Organization of American States in 1948. The OAS still works on issues of common interest, and you will find a variety of useful and interesting resources on the organization's website.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Theme Park Insider (Sunday, 6/19/05)
If you and your family are planning a vacation, or even if you're planning a convention, you may be interested in examining America's theme parks as possibilities. The Theme Park Insider offers specific information about the parks, their attractions, and their facilities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worldview (Monday, 6/20/05)
Worldview comes from Chicago Public Radio. Among other things, you can listen to individual programs on the site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Best Graduate Schools (Tuesday, 6/21/05)
Here's U.S. News and World Report's latest listing of what they consider to be America's Best Graduate Schools.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Creativity Workshop (Wednesday, 6/22/05)
Since 1993, the Creativity Workshop has been offering opportunities to travel while developing the creativity process. Their programs may be of particular interest to people in business and education, they say.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ExpoMuseum (Thursday, 6/23/05)
For the past century and a half or so, world's fairs have attracted huge numbers of people and have stimulated commerce. While the Internet and other technological innovations have made it less necessary to travel in order to interact or work with others far away, hi-tech has made it easier and less expensive for many of the world's people to visit locales thousands of miles away as well. Are world's fairs anachronistic and unnecessary at this point? Many people don't think so, including those who are planning the big exposition scheduled to be held in Shanghai in 2010. Incidentally, Shanghai has been adding about as many people each year recently as live in the city of Chicago. At any rate, the Internet makes it possible for you to "visit" world's fairs past as well as ponder world's fairs future at the ExpoMuseum.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Rogetıs II: The New Thesaurus (Friday, 6/24/05)
What's another word for "thesaurus?" Okay, seriously, generations of people engaged in writing of all types have been assisted in finding just the right word by this well-known reference book. Now, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus is available online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Power of Culture (Saturday, 6/25/05)
The Power of Culture traces the role of culture in development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Gerontology Research Group (Sunday, 6/26/05)
The Gerontology Research Group tracks down and counts the growing number of persons who are among the extremely old and studies why they live so long.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World Factbook 2005 (Monday, 6/27/05)
The United States Central Intelligence Agency has published its World Factbook since 1962, which, since 1971, has been available to the public. Here's the 2005 edition.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Post 200 (Tuesday, 6/28/05)
The Post 200 is a list of the top businesses in the Washington, D. C. area, according to the research and judgment of this "national newspaper's" editors.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OpenCRS (Wednesday, 6/29/05)
OpenCRS attempts to make reports from the Congressional Research Service available to the American public that pays $100 million to support Congress' "think tank."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Elder Law Foundation (Thursday, 6/30/05)
The National Elder Law Foundation can help you find a certified elder law attorney, among other things.
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