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NYTimes.com: Pensions Find Riskier Funds Fail to Pay Off
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. BUSINESS DAY | April 02, 2012 Pensions Find Riskier Funds Fail to Pay Off By JULIE CRESWELL Pension funds that have increased expensive investments in private equity, real estate and hedge funds have been outperformed by stocks and bonds in the last five years. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/business/pension-funds-making-alternative… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company

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Union Membership Among Faculty and Graduate Students Grows
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education was forwarded to you by: mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu Message from the sender: Study Finds Continued Growth of Unions for Faculty Members and Graduate Students http://chronicle.com/article/Union-Membership-Among-Faculty/131413/?key=QT5… A study found a substantial increase over five years. But gains may slow, it says, in part because of state efforts to curtail collective-bargaining rights. This premium article will be available to nonsubscribers at the link above for five days and at http://chronicle.com/article/Union-Membership-Among-Faculty/131413/ http://chronicle.com/article/Union-Membership-Among-Faculty/131413/ Most E-Mailed French Lessons: How Paris Changed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis http://chronicle.com/article/French-Lessons-How-Paris/131326/ Harvard by Lottery http://chronicle.com/article/Harvard-by-Lottery/131322/ Scholarly Groups' Choices Yield Diverging Fortunes http://chronicle.com/article/Scholarly-Groups-Choices/131396/ How to Ask a Question http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/how-to-ask-a-question/32095 Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers. http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Endlessly-E-Mail/131390/ Finding it hard to keep up with all that's happening in academe? The Chronicle keeps you up to date with award-winning reporting and analysis of current events in higher education. We offer daily and weekly e-mail newsletters that will keep you current. Go to http://chronicle.com/myaccount/newsletters http://chronicle.com/myaccount/newsletters to sign up. (c) The Chronicle of Higher Education 1255 23rd Street NW Washington, DC 20037

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Now available online: The 1940 US Census
by Eugene McElroy 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Starting today, April 2, 2012, the National Archives will make available on-line the 1940 US Census. 1940: With Pearl Harbor less than 2 years away, the United States was still in the throes of the Great Depression. The wartime industrial and military mobilization that would pull the USA out of the Depression and launch it onto the world stage as the undisputed political and economic superpower had not yet occurred. With this in mind, the 1940 Census is a comprehensive statistical snap-shot of the USA in one of the most crucial years in its history. The Census is far more than a mere how-many-people-lived-where. *Employment Status*, *Income *and *Occupation, Industry and Class of Worker* are some of the more important questions that people were asked to answer. The Social Security Act was signed by President Roosevelt in 1935, so questions in 1940 Census on *Social Security* was one of the first opportunities to ascertain its impact. In 1930, foreign-born workers made up 15.2% of the workforce (7.4 million workers). The 1940 Census includes questions on *Citizenship,* *Place of Birth* and *Birthplace of Mother and Father* in order to measure this trend. Women are asked about their marriage status and the number of children. The 1940 Census includes this and much more for researchers. Please click on the links below. (Thanks to SMLR Library part-timer Cathryn Miller for finding these links). http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/ http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/general-info.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=148895844 -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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mcelroy@work.rutgers.edu sent: Strand Bookstore, Workers Tussle Over Contract
by noreply＠nypublicradio.org 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

An article from http://culture.wnyc.org/ has been sent to you by: mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu ------------------ Strand Bookstore, Workers Tussle Over Contract *Copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser: http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2012/apr/02/strand-workers-vote-c… --------------- (c)2012 culture.wnyc.org

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