State of the Dream 2007: People of Color Vote Blue, But Stay in the Red.
BOSTON, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report finds that while people of color support Democrats in the voting booth, they are still waiting for policies and programs that close the economic gap between them and whites. An embargoed PDF version of the report is available to...

The distribution of job satisfaction among young European graduates: does the choice of study field matter?
Investment in education appears to be related to people's success in making many decisions concerning their working life. Higher education, in particular, promotes more efficient decision-making processes related to the labor market through the acquisition of information that has a positive impact on occupational choices (Arrow, 1997). As a...

Cultural change in a maximum-security prison: the Wyoming State Penitentiary has improved its work environment through a project funded by the National Institute of Corrections and led by the warden and a professor.
For the past fifteen months, we have undertaken a program to change the organization culture at the Wyoming State Penitentary (WSP),Wyoming's only maximum-security prison. This effort has been funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Corrections and managed nationally by the Criminal Justice Institute in Connecticut....

France gets ready to woo Indian students.
Byline: Indrani Bagchi PARIS: France does not have language synergies with India, nor is its educational system compatible. Yet, concerned that Europe may be losing the battle for India's hearts and minds, the country is now getting ready to play the education game with India...

Program aims to inspire satellite youth.
Although conceived 53 years ago by South Australian premier Thomas Playford as an idyllic satellite city to the north of Adelaide, the community of Elizabeth has experienced economic and social disadvantage for many years, including ongoing high rates of unemployment (with a current youth unemployment rate of around 35%)...

Michigan Department of Career Development Reports Michigan's June Jobless Rates Increase Slightly in Most Major Areas.
LANSING, Mich., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- June seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates increased in 10 of the state's 12 major labor market areas, Dr. Barbara Bolin, director of the Michigan Department of Career Development, announced today. Employment and labor force levels increased in 11 areas in June. The...

Annual report on school spending: a school board in Kansas is hawking extra property on eBay while districts in Florida are pocketing extra cash from the lottery. Find out the creative measures states across the country are taking to find extra funding in the money.
For the first time in close to two years the Dow has hit 10,000, unemployment rates are edging down and the manufacturing sector is posting gains. "The recent positive news on state budget performance is good not only for K-12 education budgets but particularly good news for other areas...

Biting into China's fruits of labour.
The rising level of unemployment in the country - be it among males or females, in rural or in urban areas - has India scurrying around for solutions. And who else, but China, with a history of "extreme employment security and a drastically reformed labour relations," is...

FlipDog.com Releases June/July 2001 Job Opportunity Index; Companies Are Still Hiring, Despite Recent Labor Reports.
PROVO, Utah, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The national supply of jobs is at its highest point in three months, according to the June/July 2001 Job Opportunity Index(TM) (JOI) from FlipDog.com(TM), a premier online recruiting site from TMP Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq: TMPW). Despite dismal unemployment reports from the...

PMI Revises 2001 Operating Earnings Guidance.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI) announced today that it expects that operating earnings for the second quarter of 2001 will likely range between $1.66 - 1.68 per share, while operating earnings for the year 2001 would range between $6.77 -...