Minister Bathabile Dlamini via Daily Maverick More than 1200 South African social workers packed the auditorium at the Durban International...

Obama Family leading the 50th Anniversary March- Photo Credit Whitehouse.gov   President Barack Obama, in what may be his most...

Social work students from several schools in the greater Washington, DC area and from as far away as Kentucky and...

How actively involved should social workers be in the political arena? This was one of the themes that set the...

I became a social worker because I believe this profession has the greatest potential to create a more egalitarian society...

Nineteenth century British philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer was the first to coin the term “survival of the fittest.” The...

Dr. Lawrence M. Berger is the 12th director of the venerable Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University...

Credit|Shutterstock I received a letter from Tom Silverstein responding to my article on solitary confinement read by his wife who...

WASHINGTON, DC—Spearheaded by former Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns and joined by former Congressman Ronald V. Dellums and current Congresswoman Barbara...

President Ronald Reagan signing law establishing a national holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as his widow Coretta Scott...

After losing the House in 2010 and now the Senate four years later, Democrats seem bereft of ideas about how...

In this age of personal responsibility and expressive individualism we are witnessing a rare expression of solidarity from athletes who...

What if we knew how to prevent children and youth from engaging in risky and self-destructive behaviors? What if we...

A troubling new report released recently by the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research documents...

As a social worker on the Hill, I have had a front row seat during battles over the welfare state....

All eyes are on Republicans gaining control of the Senate and affirming their commitment to repealing the Affordable Care Act...

The Republicans’ decisive sweep of the 2014 midterm elections should be a wake up call for Democrats, and there are...

Should Republicans take control of the United States Senate there will be many political pundits faulting Democrats for their inability...

As I wrote in a article several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison...

The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from...