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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.
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