Politics

Photo Credit: Big Brothers Big Sisters Over 40 youth serving organizations have expressed their support for the Youth Mentoring Grant,...

Mick Mulvaney defending Trump budget cuts. The American Psychological Association expressed serious concerns regarding deep cuts in the president’s proposed...

Scotland's Deputy First Minister, John Swinney On March 7, 2017, Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, made a statement in Parliament regarding...

ALEXANDRIA, VA, — Darla Spence Coffey, MSW, PhD, president and CEO of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), has...

UA Social Work Students on Advocacy Day 2016 There won’t be a post-spring break re-acclimation for a small group of social...

A $1 increase in the minimum wage would likely reduce the U.S. adolescent birth rate by about 2 percent, according...

Photo: AP The Trump administration in late February withdrew Obama administration federal protections for transgender students that would allow them...

ST. LOUIS — As House Republicans labor to define a new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), public...

Political ideology is not something everyone thinks about, but for Social Workers it is infused in our profession whether we...

The United States Department of Agriculture has recently removed all inspection records from its website--this means that inspection records from...

The foundational values of human rights and social justice have always been compounded with socialism and social democracy as core...

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015 alone. This has been the largest movement of...

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein In times of...

With the recent change in administration, many questions remain in regard to the potential policy changes that may affect refugees...

Medicaid proponents rally in Ohio (Credit: Columbus Dispatch) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- More Americans are taking steps to prevent disease because...

University of Michigan Anthropology Professor Jason De León Jason De Leon, University of Michigan assistant professor of anthropology, has spent...

After the election, I felt a sense of dread. This isn’t so much of a political statement as it is...

There is a worrying trend in popular media, whereby “debate” and “free speech” are becoming synonymous with “listening to hate...

Panelists (left to right): E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and frequent commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered;” DeRay Mckesson, one...

An inquiry into mental health services in England has found that social workers play a vital role in preventing mental...