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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
WASHINGTON – The Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering has launched a contest to spur undergraduate and graduate students to create health-related apps. The prize for the winning team: $10,000.
Students pursuing degrees toward careers in health, engineering and computer science could earn a distinctive addition to their resumes by participating in the “Go Viral to Improve Health” contest, officials say.
The contest is the second annual collegiate challenge designed to inspire students to work in interdisciplinary teams and transform health data into mobile apps, online tools or games, or other innovative products that solve vexing health problems.
[See also: Mobile health app market in growth mode]
There is a total of $18,000 in prizes. The team that designs the best product will receive a $10,000 prize sponsored by Heritage Provider Network and the opportunity to demonstrate their app during the plenary session of Health Datapalooza, the third Health Data Initiative Forum, June 5-6, Washington, D.C.
The second and third place teams will receive awards of $5,000 and $3,000, respectively, and both will have the chance to display their winning technologies in the exhibit hall at Datapalooza, a gathering of software engineers, developers, and health leaders. Teams will be reimbursed up to $1,000 of their travel costs to the forum.
Entries will be assessed on their design, usability, and how well they integrate public health data. Expert judges include Deborah Estrin, professor of computer science, University of California, Los Angeles; Reena Singhal Lee, senior technical manager, Google; Richard Merkin, president and CEO, Heritage Provider Network; Todd Park, chief technology officer, Department of Health and Human Services; and Barbara Rimer, dean and alumni distinguished professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
[See also: App challenge winners harness public data for cancer treatment ]
Participating teams must consist of between two and five members and include at least one undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a health-related degree and one undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in computer science, engineering, or a similar major. Additional team members may come from any program or major. Teams must use data from the Health Indicators Warehouse, a vast collection of health data and indicator sets made available by the Department of Health and Human Services, and are encouraged to use other data sources as well. Additional eligibility criteria and terms are spelled out at iom.edu/goviral.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Last year 300,000 domestic violence victims in desperate need of help were left unprotected in New York State, due to devastating budget cuts.
“Local domestic violence programs served over 63,000 people last year, and with the need increasing, we won’t survive another round of budget cuts,” said Michele McKeon, CEO of the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
This is a tragedy, of course, but it is not the only one.
A report released last Tuesday by the Human Services Council of New York shows that social programs relied upon by millions of state residents, have been drastically curtailed due to the $800 million in state funding cuts in the last two years.
We are talking about such basic services as child care and child welfare, youth and after-school programs, senior services, health programs, employment training and assistance, supportive housing, services for the homeless, and programs for people with disabilities. The list goes on and on.
“We have suffered devastating losses, while at the same time, poverty, hunger, and homelessness are at or near all-time highs,” said Allison Sesso, the Human Services Council deputy director. “The economy is not out of the woods yet, and government needs to take an active role. These programs need to be invested in, not cut.”
The HSC report, titled “A Lose-Lose Proposition: The Economic Impact of Lost Human Services in New York State,” makes clear that the cuts have a direct impact on the state’s economy and employment situation.
“Not only have the people who rely on these services been harmed but 27,000 human services sector jobs have been lost,” the report said.
Also, says the report, human services programs provide nearly 1.25 million jobs, buttress local economies by purchasing more than a billion dollars in goods and services, and makes it possible for parents and others to hold jobs through child care, after-school and elder care programs.
“This report demonstrates that human services matter to everyone,” said Michael Stoller, executive director of HSC.
Mark Hurwitz, deputy director of Project Renewal — a group that works to move addicted or mentally ill homeless men and women from the streets or shelters to health, homes, and jobs — says fighting homelessness has become much more of an uphill battle.
“Between the hardships our clients are experiencing as a result of the economic crisis and the funding cuts, things have become much worse,” Hurwitz said.
“Last year we moved 453 shelter residents to permanent homes and if it were not for the cuts in rental assistance programs we would have moved many more.”
The city’s decision last April to cut Advantage, a rental assistance program, after the state stopped funding it, dealt a heavy blow to Project Renewals’ efforts.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
WASHINGTON, Jan 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE)—The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF), an advocate for the VOW to Hire Heroes Act recently signed by President Obama, is offering employment resources and career assistance for disabled veterans interested in help accessing the benefits, training and job opportunities create by the new law.
“There are nearly 90,000 unemployed veterans in the United States and most of them are able to work and sincerely want to work in meaningful jobs,” said Raegan Rivers, Chief Administrative Officer of the Disabled Veterans National Foundation. “We are working diligently to help disabled and underserved veterans, including our women veterans, access the benefits created under the new law and connect them immediately to the training, financial assistance and secure jobs they need and deserve.”
The U.S. Department of Labor unemployment report shows that in October 2011, the average unemployment rate among all veterans was 7.7%, and 12.1% for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The number is even higher for veterans with physical and emotional impairment as a result of their military service. One benefit of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act provides disabled veterans up to one year of additional Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Benefits.
The law will help service members be better prepared for the transition to civilian status, expand career counseling, and make it easier for them to convert their military occupational specialties to related job qualifications. The measure also expands education and training for unemployed veterans of previous eras and offers tax incentives for employers to hire veterans who have been out of work for six months or longer.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
PRINCETON, NJ—Gallup’s Job Creation Index was at +15 in June. While this does not differ much from the +14 of May or the +13 of April, it is the highest since September 2008’s +16.
The Job Creation Index has increased steadily if marginally in 2011. This continues a pattern that began after the Index matched its low point of -5 in April 2009, and is consistent with the improvement in the overall U.S. job situation over the past couple of years.
Hiring Increases Modestly in 2011
The Job Creation Index score of +15 in June is based on 33% of workers nationwide saying their employers are hiring and 18% saying their employers are letting workers go. Between 18% and 19% of workers have said their employers are reducing staff size throughout the first half of 2011. However, there has been a slight increase in the percentage saying their companies are hiring employees and expanding their workforces, from 29% in January to 33% in June.
Job Market Conditions Are Similar Across the U.S.
Job market conditions are best in the Midwest at +17 and worst in the West at +12. Since June 2010, job creation has improved by 12 percentage points in the East—the most of any region. The job market in the South has seen the smallest improvement—up 1 point—over the same period.
Implications
Gallup’s Job Creation Index, at +15 for June 2011, is much improved over June 2010’s +8 and June 2009’s -3 readings. One reason for this improvement, according to employee reports, is that the nation’s employers are holding on to their workers; the percentage currently letting people go is just about where it was in June 2008. Additionally, the percentage reporting their employer is hiring has increased slightly during the first half of 2011.
However, companies are still not in a hurry to hire. The percentage saying their employers were hiring in June is down seven points from January 2008, when the recession was just getting underway. New jobs are being created at an anemic pace compared with what is needed to lower the U.S. unemployment and underemployment rates. These job creation trends are consistent with Gallup’s recent unemployment report that shows the current job situation has seen little year-over-year improvement.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Many public leaders are contemplating a move to the private sector for the first time. How can they ensure they are best-prepared for the challenge?
For anyone working in the public sector, the latest employment figures from the Office of National Statistics make terrifying reading: public sector employment reduced by 67,000 in the third quarter of this year, with private sector employment increasing by only 5,000.
The government’s early claims that the private sector would accommodate those forced out of roles in the public sector look increasingly hollow.
Not only are those making the leap to the private sector competing in an ever-shrinking job pool, but they are also finding themselves fighting a new and surprising battle; the misconceptions that many recruiters have of public sector workers.
A recent report by Hays highlighted that employers and recruitment agencies believe that public sector workers are “institutionalised” and used to an “easy life”, unable to “hack it” in the private sector.
The reality is, of course, very different. Whilst it is true that the public and private sectors are different and want different things from their staff, public sector managers have an incredible base of transferrable skills, with many having overcome huge professional challenges.
But it is an unfortunate truth that these preconceptions are acting as barriers to many public sector workers trying to find employment in the private sector. I talk to many public sector employees who cannot even get past the first stage of screening that many private sector recruiters put in place. One public sector manager was even told by a recruitment consultant that one employer for which they were recruiting had specifically requested that no public sector CVs be put forward.
How can public sector workers overcome this new prejudice and stand a chance in such a competitive market?
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
In recognition of the dedication and sacrifice of the nation’s veterans, the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence has established a program to improve the health of veterans, specifically those of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, by supporting doctoral-level nursing candidates who are committed to advancing veterans’ healthcare in areas from patient care to policy and administration.
The Jonas Nursing Scholars Program for Veterans Health formally will launch in fall 2012 with $500,000 to start. The Jonas Center’s goal is to support 50 nursing scholars across the nation in 2012 and expand the program in the coming years.
The first PhD/DNP cohort includes five students from the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing, selected as the pilot site for the program. Each scholar will receive $10,000 from the Jonas Center to pursue research focused on veterans’ health needs identified by the White House and Veterans Administration.
“We are pleased and excited to partner with the Jonas Center on this important program,” said USD Dean Sally B. Hardin, RN, PhD, APRN, FAAN.
The Jonas Nursing Scholars Program for Veterans Health builds on the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program, an ongoing effort to address the nation’s continuing shortage of nursing faculty.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2012 – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is hosting a career fair in Washington, D.C., this week dedicated solely to helping military spouses find jobs.
The Hiring Our Heroes – Military Spouse Career Forum will feature a host of national and local employers specifically seeking qualified military and veteran spouses, as well as resume and interview coaching, and resources for starting a business. The forum is scheduled for Jan. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Spouses of active duty and reserve members, retirees, veterans and fallen service members are welcome to attend.
Job seekers and employers can register for this free event and learn about other chamber-sponsored career fairs around the country at hoh.greatjob.net. Be sure to upload your resume when registering. For assistance with registration, email .
The Chamber of Commerce launched the Hiring Our Heroes program last year. This yearlong, nationwide effort is aimed at helping veterans and spouses find employment, with a goal of conducting 100 hiring fairs across the country.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
WASHINGTON—Four painful years after the recession struck and wiped out 8.7 million jobs, the United States may finally be in an elusive pattern known as a virtuous cycle—an escalating loop of hiring and spending.
The nation added 200,000 jobs in December in a burst of hiring that drove the unemployment rate down two notches to 8.5 percent, its lowest in almost three years, and led economists to conclude that the improvement in the job market might just last.
“There is more horsepower to this economy than most believe,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands. “The stars are aligned right for a meaningful economic recovery.”
It was the sixth month in a row that the economy added at least 100,000 jobs, the longest streak since 2006. The economy added jobs every month last year, the first time that has happened since 2005.
And the unemployment rate, which peaked at 10 percent in October 2009 and stood at 9.1 percent in August, has fallen four months straight. It was 8.7 percent in November.
If economics textbooks and the best hopes of millions of unemployed Americans are confirmed, the virtuous cycle may be underway, which would suggest the job market will continue to strengthen.
When people are hired, they have more money to spend. That means greater demand for goods and services and results in businesses hiring even more people. That results in even more spending and leads to even more hiring.
That would be the reverse of the vicious cycle that took hold during the recession. People lost jobs and spent less, so businesses rang up fewer sales and were forced to lay off more people. That led to even less spending and more layoffs.
“The labor market is healing,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial. She cautioned that “we still have a long way to go—years—to recoup the losses we have endured.”
Indeed, the economy added 1.6 million jobs for all of 2011. That is better than the 940,000 added during 2010. In 2009, the most bruising year of the recession, the nation lost more than 5 million.
But it will take 6 million more jobs to get the United States back to what it had in December 2007, when the recession began. Economists forecast the nation will add almost 2 million this year.
The unemployment report was the first to be released since Republicans across the country began voting to determine a candidate to face President Barack Obama this fall in an election that will turn on the economy.
Obama appears bound to face voters with the highest unemployment rate of any president running for re-election since World War II. Unemployment was 7.8 percent when Obama took office.
But the president’s re-election chances may hinge more on the direction of the unemployment rate than on what the rate is come Election Day. The rate was a still-high 7.2 percent when Ronald Reagan beat Walter Mondale in 1984, but it had fallen from 10.8 percent two years earlier.
Obama, visiting the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, said: “We have made real progress. Now is not the time to stop.” He called on Congress to extend a tax Social Security payroll tax cut that is due to expire at the end of next month.
Campaigning in New Hampshire for Obama’s job, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum claimed credit for Republicans, suggesting the gains were tied to voter optimism that a Republican would take the White House.
“There’s a lot of concern still,” added Santorum, who finished in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses earlier this week. Another candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, dismissed the job gains as inadequate.
The report painted a picture of a broadly improving job market. Average hourly pay rose by 4 cents. The average workweek lengthened by six minutes, a sign that business is picking up and more companies may soon need to hire.
The private sector added 212,000 jobs in December. That gain was offset by 12,000 layoffs by governments.
Hiring increased across industries. Manufacturing added 23,000 jobs, as did the health care industry. Transportation and warehousing added 50,000 jobs. Retailers added 28,000. Even the beleaguered construction industry added 17,000.
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Monday, December 05, 2011
Like many people on Wall Street, Drew and Rod Fox have had some tough days at the office these past few years. But they know their worst day is nothing compared to the work of people in the armed services and, especially, the Navy SEALs.
The Fox brothers are among a large community on Wall Street that has embraced fund-raising for veterans causes. Drew Fox, 42 years old, is a managing director of Logan Circle Partners, a division of Fortress Investment Group LLC, a private equity and hedge fund. Rod Fox, 48, is chief executive of TigerRisk Partners, a reinsurance broker.
Drew Fox says that a big ethos on Wall Street over the past three to four years is the idea that you can give by going or go by giving.
“You can give to the United States by actually serving, or you can serve those who serve by donating,” says Drew Fox. “That’s been picked up by the private sector and you’re seeing that in terms of employment and you’re seeing that in terms of support of nonprofits that support these causes.”
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
The number of U.S. jobs waiting to be filled rose in September, giving a bit more hope to the millions of unemployed workers who have been shut out of the economic recovery.
There were 3.35 million available jobs at the end of September, up from August’s upwardly revised 3.13 million, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released on Tuesday.
Monthly job openings—unfilled, posted vacancies that employers plan to fill within 30 days—help describe demand for labor. The number has consistently hovered below the 4.4 million openings registered in December 2007, before the 2008-2009 recession.
The number of Americans without jobs has increased by more than 6 million since the onset of the recession.
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