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US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook

By Kristin Wolff | Published: November 23, 2009
“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
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New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers

By Lewis Humphreys | Published: September 15, 2009
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
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The Future of Work and Learning is Today

By Lisa Katz | Published: August 23, 2009
Learning Online Pays Off Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform [...]
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