Consumer World
http://www.consumerworld.org/
Description: Consumer World is a collection of more than 1000 consumer resources including data on insurance, banking, credit, stock quotes, movie reviews and consumer protection/rights. 
Comments: This site is also useful in studying banking, money, insurance and credit matters. It is commercially sponsored.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 
 

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
fsbr/esbr.html
Description: The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values.

Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: Low
 
 

Employment Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
fsbr/employment.html
Description: This is a collection of easy-to-read charts with current information on U.S. employment in the Civilian Labor Force, Unemployment, Non Farm Payrolls, and Productivity.

Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: High
 
 

ESRI Arc Data Online
http://www.esri.com/data/
online/index.html
Description: This incredible stie allows you to create maps to display data sources such as income, life expectancy, water, and birth rates. Sources of data include the census, Newsweek, Vista and others.
Comments: Useful site for ELL students.
Resource Type: Maps
Graphics Content: High
 
 

Government Information Sharing Project 
http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/
index.html 
Description: This site provides data on U.S. demographics, education and economics, as well as links to other government web sites. 
Comments: Provides data for basic government information provided by the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Center for Education Statistics. National, as well as, state information is easily accessible. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 
 

Hoover's Online
http://www.hoovers.com/
Description: Hoover's Online is a business service with information on the world's top 1500 companies. The top ten business stories for the current week are also a useful feature.
Comments: This site is also useful in looking up foreign and multinational business issues.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

January Careers: Challenges of the Global Workplace. 
http://webserve.dowjones.com/
classroom/activity/wsjce.98jan.
act.careers.html
Experience first-hand the problems that can result when different cultures collide in today's global workplace. Use two Wall Street Journal Articles to learn what businesses in Belgium and Holland are doing to help workers cope with diversity. 
Author: Wall Street Journal
 

WebQuest in Careers
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
jobquest.htm
When recruiting employees, a small firm competes with both large and small businesses. It cannot afford to let competitors take the cream of the crop. Aggressive recruitment is necessary because training new empoyees is expensive, and getting the right employee improves the firm's overall performance. More and more job seekers turn to the Internet to find new job possibilities. Today you do a WebQuest of online recruiting. You will look at how companies recruit new employees through the Internet, and search for information and jobs that you are interested in.
Author: Cynthis Jimes