Upwards Leisure Mobility: Americans Work Less and Have More Leisure Time Than Ever Before

Uses evidence from a research study to demonstrate that Americans are spending less time at work and more time at leisure since the 1960s, and that less educated and lower-income Americans work less and enjoy more leisure than those with higher incomes

Tricresyl Phosphate Neurotoxicity Potential

Mr. Sherk discusses the potential effects of ongoing human exposure to ordinary doses of neurotoxicants

Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs

Few social programs have attempted to provide high-risk adults -- and, particularly, former prisoners -- with mentors. And thus there are few resources that offer practical advice and recommendations for mentoring this population, given its distinct needs, assets and challenges. While much remains to be tested and learned, this manual draws on the experience of the 11 sites involved in P/PV'sReady4Work prisoner reentry demonstration, as well as established best practices in the mentoring field, to provide guidelines for practitioners who are interested in developing a mentoring program to support former prisoners and enhance the effectiveness of other reentry services, such as employment and case management services.The guide was originally published by the US Department of Labor in November 2007 under the title Mentoring Ex-Prisoners: A Guide for Prisoner Reentry Programs. However, because of growing interest in establishing mentoring programs as part of larger reentry efforts around the country, P/PV decided to reissue the guide, along with updated information related to P/PV's evaluation of Ready4Work (particularly findings published in Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults, 2009.

The Relationship Between Organizational Commitment, Discretionary Effort, and Turnover Intent

Unemployment has fallen to 3.7%, the lowest level in 50 years (United States Department of Labor, 2019a). Additionally, 6.9 million jobs are left unfilled (United States Department of Labor, 2019b). A workforce gap has developed between the number of available, qualified workers and the number of jobs that need to be filled (United States Department of Labor, 2019b). This gap has created a new reality for millions of workers who are experiencing unprecedented competition for their talent, which also brings an unprecedented challenge for business owners and managers to find new and better ways to recruit, motivate, and retain talent (Carnevale & Smith, 2017). In order to better understand the experience of employees in this new environment, this study surveyed a highly skilled and in-demand workforce, air conditioning mechanics, to determine the relationship between the three components of organizational commitment (desire, cost, and obligation) and two outcomes of organizational commitment (discretionary effort and intent to turnover). The Three Component Model of Organizational Commitment (Meyer & Allen, 1991) and Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2012) formed the theoretical foundations of the study. The study found a statistically significant relationship between the commitment component desire to discretionary effort and the commitment component obligation to discretionary effort

In-Situ Candidates in the Stellar Halo of NGC 253

HonorsInterdisciplinary AstronomyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/169417/1/jossherk.pd

Interstate Water Compacts: A Bibliography

Utton Center Model Interstate Water Compact Project. Arranged alphabetically (years and then by letter)

The Shape of Illusion: Water Law and Policy in the Fourth Dimension

With these words, Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men, expressed his outrage at being caught in a lie. The lie is not relevant to our purposes today. What is relevant is the fact that the truth eventually became known. As we look to secure water supplies for the future, it is essential that decisions regarding the allocation and management of water resources be based as much as possible on truth, not on illusions created and perpetrated in the name of political expediency. As Col. Jessep could not stand being caught in a lie, future water allocation and management decisions will not stand if they are based on illusion. This paper addresses three illusions. The following Section focuses on the myth of stationarity. The second Section debunks the assumption that physically available water supplies are also legally available. The third Section addresses the illusion of “state primacy” in the allocation and management of water resources. Conclusions are contained in the final Section, “The Fourth Dimension.

Alternative Strategies for Addressing the Presence and Effects of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Fresh Water Resources

In recent years, new information has arisen to challenge this assumption. Chemicals from a wide variety of pharmaceutical and personal care products ( PPCPs ), their byproducts and endocrine disrupting compounds ( EDCs ) have received growing attention from the water treatment and wastewater treatment community because of the ability of PPCPs to persist, or only partially degrade, in water and during wastewater treatment. Several federal agencies, including the EnvironmentAl Protection Agency ( EPA ), the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ), the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), have the potential to be involved in various aspects of the management of PPCPs. In addition to these federal agencies, numerous units of state, tribal, and local governments are (or could be) involved in implementing federal, state, and tribal environmental programs that are relevant to the management of PPCPs. Industry stakeholders also play significant roles, both directly and indirectly, in PPCP management. PPCPs are an extremely diverse group of chemicals used in human health care, cosmetic care, veterinary medicine, and agriculture. In 2004, it was estimated that there may be as many as six million PPCP substances commercially available worldwide . . . . PPCPs are also ubiquitous pollutants, entering the environment worldwide due to widely dispersed usage by individuals and in both industry and agriculture. Recent reports in popular media regarding pharmaceuticals in drinking water have contributed to increasing public awareness of and concern about this issue. In 2006, the Center for Water Law & Policy at Texas Tech University (the Center ) was awarded funding by the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study related to micropollutants (including PPCPs) in the natural environment. This study was divided into three specific projects. Project 1 focused on the development of a PPCP database containing documents, reports, publications, and other material related to PPCPs. While information in the database was designed for use in Project 3 (discussed below), the information was also intended to be made available to those interested in understanding water law and policy issues, including researchers, decision-makers in the public and private sectors, stakeholders, interest groups, and the general public. The creation of the Micropollutants Clearinghouse ( Clearinghouse ) achieved this latter objective. Project 2 focused on primary research to improve the understanding of the presence and fate of mixtures of micropollutants in the environment. This research, which was based on field studies conducted on discharges from a wastewater treatment facility in West Texas, forms the basis for the case study noted below Project 3 focused on an analysis of alternative strategies for addressing the presence and effects of PPCPs in fresh water resources. It identified and evaluated statutory and regulatory approaches that are (or could be) utilized to prevent PPCPs from entering the aquatic environment in concentrations that would exceed concentrations determined appropriate for protection of human health and the environment. Potential alternative strategies were also identified and evaluated. Project 3 addressed three basic questions: 1) can existing statutory and regulatory authorities be utilized to collect information about and/or effectively manage PPCPs entering the environment?; 2) are there other alternative strategies that should be considered?; 3) what are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the existing authorities and alternative strategies? The results of Project 3, as well as answers to these three questions, are contained herei