What’s New
Karen Corday July 11th, 2008
New from the Network:
- The Who’s Who in Work and Family database may now be sorted by state or area of expertise.
- The Fact Sheet for Military Families is now available in PDF format.
- For the second year in a row, Karen Corday and Judi Casey won an Apex Award in the category of One to Two Person Produced Newsletter. The winning issue of the Network News was the April 2007 issue, Fathers and Work and Family, featuring Roland Warren of the National Fatherhood Initiative.
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New in Work and Family:
- Six Months of Job Loss Push Economy Toward Recession
ABC News reports that the number of jobs created in the United Stateshas dropped for the sixth consecutive month, a marker many economists use to declare a recession on the way. The hardest hit industries include construction, finance, and manufacturing, and unemployment levels are at 5.5 percent. - Survey Suggests Incentives That Might Persuade Older Workers to Delay Their Decision to Retire
The Wall Street Journal Market Watch reports on research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute that tested nineteen possible incentives for encouraging employees to postpone retirement. Popular incentives include feeling truly needed, receiving a pension while working, and contract work.
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These as well as other popular press articles from around the world may be found in What’s New in Work and Family on our main site.
