I/41Y8yrJiI2L.jpg' alt='How To Get Laid In New York City Manual Paul' title='How To Get Laid In New York City Manual Paul' />Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. How Children Succeed by Paul Tough. Why do some children succeed while others fail The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one. Preface to the Revised Edition The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage has guided thousands of Times journalists in our quest to produce clear and powerful prose. Offering legal news, articles, job listings, information and products. New York Unemployment Know Your Rights Last Verified January 2. Unemployment in New York is handled by the New York State Department of Labor. Filing for unemployment is fairly simple and the DOL recommends filing online for the quickest response. The Department instituted reforms beginning in 2. NY state leadership, who believed the amount of compensation in NY had not kept pace with the increases in cost of living. This article will keep you abreast of the latest developments in the process of obtaining unemployment benefits in NY. Sports journalists and bloggers covering NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MMA, college football and basketball, NASCAR, fantasy sports and more. News, photos, mock drafts, game. AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Terms of Use Preferences Contact Us. The Most Ticketed Car Show In America Has Been Canceled This Year. H20i, the annual car show in Ocean City, Maryland that Jalopnik declared the most ticketed car show. Last March, I met Haggis in New York. He was in the editing phase of his latest movie, The Next Three Days, a thriller starring Russell Crowe, in an office in SoHo. New York workers looking for assistance may also contact the Claimant Advocate Office. The title is slightly misleading as this office is not set up to argue a problem on your behalf. It does offer advice to claimants who need help in understanding unemployment insurance rules, processes and decisions. Eligibility for Unemployment in NYThe requirements to collect unemployment insurance in New York are similar to most other states. In order to qualify for unemployment benefits, you must have worked for an employer covered by the state unemployment law, and earned enough wages within a 1. There is an additional eligibility test, and to pass, you should be unemployed through no fault of your ownable and available to worklegally allowed to work in the US or be a US citizen. The state will examine your wages over a 1. Then, the examiner will examine other issues separately. If the state finds that you are eligible, the state will inform you of how much you will receive. Eligibility Requirements Explained. How To Get Laid In New York City Manual Paul' title='How To Get Laid In New York City Manual Paul' />Unemployed Through No Fault of Your Own. Your actions or decisions cannot be the cause of your separation from work. If you quit without a good cause connected to your work, the state will deny your claim. If your employer fired you for actions considered to disregard their interests, the state may consider that misconduct connected to work. So then, the state may deny your claim. Able and Available. You must be physically and mentally able to work when you file your initial claim for benefits. You must be available to accept any reasonable job offer. A reasonable offer is for a job youve been trained to perform at a salary similar to your previous position. Legal to Work in the USYou must be a US citizen or be able to provide proof that you can work legally in the US to be eligible to receive benefits. You must have worked in New York during the base period to be eligible. As a condition of receiving benefits after the state approves your initial claim, you must show you are actively looking for work. Also, you may not refuse a reasonable job offer. Wage Earnings Requirement and the Base Period. The state requires that you earn enough wages within a 1. The base period is the first four out of the last five quarters prior to your filing your initial claim. This chart shows the base period. You must have collected wages from working in at least two calendar quarters 3 month periods in your base period ANDYou must have earned at least 1,9. The amount will increase to 2,1. The total wages paid to you must be at least 1. Exception If your high quarterwages were 9,3. Example Your high quarter wages were 4,0. You must have been paid at least 6,0. If you do not qualify using the standard base period, the state will examine your wages over the last 1. You may ask the state to use the alternative base period if you think your benefit amount will be higher as a result. Calculating Your Unemployment Benefits. The Department uses the base period wages to determine how much youll receive each week, your weekly benefit amount WBA. If you received wages in all four quarters of your base period and your highest quarter wages are More than 3, 5. WBA will equal the wages from your highest paid quarter divided by 2. If that calculation is 1. WBA will be 1. 43. Less than or equal to 3,5. WBA your high quarter wages divided by 2. If you earned wages in only two or three quarters of your base period and the wages in the highest quarter are More than 4,0. WBA will be the average of your two highest quarters divided by 2. If thats less than 1. WBA will be 1. 43. From 3,5. 76 to 4,0. WBA will equal the wages from your highest paid quarter divided by 2. WBA is your high quarter wages divided by 2. The maximum WBA you can receive in New York is currently 4. The amount increases annually. The minimum also will increase regularly and is currently 1. The Department will notify you of their wage earnings requirement calculation and your potential WBA in the Monetary Benefit Determination notice. Receiving this notice does not mean that the state approved your benefit claim. You still must be otherwise eligible to receive benefits. How to Apply for Unemployment in NYYou should file your claim for unemployment insurance within the first week of being completely or partially unemployed. If you wait longer, you can potentially lose your benefits. There is a waiting period of one week before you begin receiving benefits. You cannot file during a week in which you work for 4 or more days or gross a weekly income of over 4. In those circumstances, you will have to wait until the following Monday to file. What you need to file your claim. Before you file your claim, you will need the following Social Security Number. Drivers license or state issued IDContact information mailing address and phone number where you can be reached between 8am 5pm Monday FridayAlien registration card number if you are not a U. S citizen. Information of your employers for the past 1. Most recent employers Federal Employer Identification Number FEIN. This can be found on your past W 2 forms. For federal employees, copies of your SF8 and SF5. Your banks routing number and checking account number if you choose direct deposit. How to apply. You can file your claim online. You will need your NY. GOV ID which you can create here. Once you create your ID, you can sign in on the same page to access the application. You can file your claim online Monday Thursday 7 3. AM 7 3. 0PMFriday 7 3. AM 5 0. 0PMSaturday All day. Sunday Until 7 0. PMAlternatively, you can file over the phone Monday Friday between 8. AM 5. PM by calling the Telephone Claims Center at 8. For the hearing impaired, you may call 8. Only the claimant may use the online system to file for unemployment benefits. If this is your first time filing for unemployment in New York, you will have to create a PIN. You cannot share this PIN with anyone else. If you are disabled or otherwise unable to complete the application yourself, you must be present while another person helps you through the process. Allowing someone else to use your PIN number without you being present can result in a loss of up to 2. For more information on having someone help you file for unemployment insurance in New York, see this Fact Sheet. You must make a new claim every week you want to receive benefits. The unemployment week begins Sunday and ends Saturday, so you must certify your claim each Sunday. After you file your claim, the DOL will send you a Monetary Determination letter that shows all of the information used to determine whether or not you are eligible for benefits as well as how much you will receive. It is extremely important that you check this form for accuracy. If something is incorrect, you must complete a Request for Reconsideration Form. Maintaining Eligibility and Weekly Certifications. The state requires that you maintain eligibility throughout the time you receive benefits. How Children Succeed Paul ToughI wish I could take this compact, powerful, clear eyed, beautifully written book and put it in the hands of every parent, teacher and politician. At its core is a notion that is electrifying in its originality and its optimism that characternot cognitionis central to success, and that character can be taught. How Children Succeed will change the way you think about children. But more than that it will fill you with a sense of what could be. Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children HereNurturing successful kids isnt a game of chance. There are new, powerful ideas about how to help children thrive, innovations that have transformed schools, homes, and lives. Paul Tough has scoured the science and interviewed the experts, and now hes written an instruction manual for the rest of us. Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of HabitTurning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough argues that non cognitive skills persistence, self control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self confidence are the most critical to success in school and life. Well written and bursting with ideas, this will be essential reading for anyone who cares about childhood in America. STARRED Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2. In this absorbing and important book, Tough explains why American children from both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum are missing out on these essential experiences. The book illuminates the extremes of American childhood for rich kids, a safety net drawn so tight its a harness for poor kids, almost nothing to break their fall. Annie Murphy Paul, The New York Times Book Review, August 2. Mr. Toughs new book, How Children Succeed Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, combines compelling findings in brain research with his own first hand observations on the front lines of school reform. He argues that the qualities that matter most to childrens success have more to do with character and that parents and schools can play a powerful role in nurturing the character traits that foster success. His book is an inspiration. It has made me less of a determinist, and more of an optimist. Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, August 3. An engaging book that casts the school reform debate in a provocative new light. Tough introduces us to a wide ranging cast of characters economists, psychologists, and neuroscientists among them whose work yields a compelling new picture of the intersection of poverty and education. Thomas Toch, The Washington Monthly, SeptemberOctober 2. How Children Succeed is a must read for all educators. Its a fascinating book that makes it very clear that the conventional wisdom about child development is flat out wrong. School Leadership Briefing Audio Journal PDF, September 2. I loved this book and the stories it told about children who succeed against big odds and the people who help them. It is well researched, wonderfully written and thought provoking. Siobhan Curious, Classroom as Microcosm, September 3, 2. How to Succeed takes readers on a high speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths. James Sweeney, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 4, 2. This wonderfully written new book reveals a school improvement measure in its infancy that has the potential to transform our schools, particularly in low income neighborhoods. Jay Mathews, Washington Post, September 1. Paul Toughs excellent new book rises to the top of the parenting book pile for its deep exploration of failure and the ways in which it builds character in our kids. Judy Bolton Fasman, Huffington Post, September 2. Drop the flashcards grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake up call. People Magazine, September 2. Essential. David Brooks, The New York Times, September 2. Tough writes with compassion and understanding this is not a handbook rather its an approach to understanding how some students beat long odds and others dont. Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2. Im telling you order immediately. How Children Succeed is engrossing, easy to read, full of stories, relevant to teachers and parents, and epiphany producing. Elena Aguilar, Edutopia, October 4, 2. If youve ever read Jonathan Kozols work, Tough brings a similar ethnographic, journalistic, and humane, middle class re awakening to challenges we do not all share. The difference is in how Paul Tough ties together the qualities we humans do all share that drive us to the definition of success created by mainstream middle class America. Sutterblog, October 1. Decades of fascinating research is now wonderfully assembled in Paul Toughs important new book, How Children Succeed. Long may this book dwell on the best seller listsNicholas Kristof, The New York Times, October 2. Loblaw Scholarship Program. Tough recognizes that government must set an agenda that tackles the terrible conditions in which so many families and children live. Schools alone cant do it, even with character education programs. And for those reasons, I applaud his new book. Diane Ravitch, Diane Ravitchs Blog, October 2. Reading Toughs new book, How Children Succeed, reminded me just why hes so good. The book is a synthesis of all the latest research on learning, told in well packaged chapters like How to Think and How to Fail and How Not To. I learned so much reading this book and I came away full of hope about how we can make life better for all kinds of kids. Emily Bazelon, Slate, November 2. Can character strengths be taught Absolutely, says Tough, and he provides the convincing research and results that bear him out in rich and readable prose. How Children Succeed is not just an important book It is essential. Daily Herald Provo, Utah, December 2, 2. 3D Xml Viewer Mac Download here. Paul Toughs How Children Succeed is an extraordinarily thoughtful book that had a profound impact on me as both a parent and a policy maker. He highlights the need to encourage our kids to stretch themselves, to help them learn to thrive in different environments and to let them failwhich is counterintuitive, but so important. Now my wife, two kids and I sit at the dinner table at night and actually ask each other, What did you fail at today We talk about how to learn from that experience and how to be resilient. Mr. Tough presents a thoughtful strategy to help those children most at risk, and it left me feeling hopeful about the huge difference we can make in the lives of those who have little opportunity. Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, Wall Street Journal, December 1. Tough makes the convincing case that its not test scores or even raw intelligence that predict who will triumph Its grit, curiosity and persistence, all life skills that can be taught. An eye opener. People Magazine, Top 1. Books of 2. 01. 2, December 3. There is much in this immensely readable book to engage and fascinate. Judith Woods, The Telegraph London, January 8, 2. A fine and provocative book ambitious and elegantly written. The Economist, January 1. A vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real childrens lives. Brilliantly readable. The Independent London, March 6, 2.