Politics

It is time for social workers to begin to flex our political muscles because not much will change in the...

I began discussing economic inequality in my classrooms more than a decade ago when President Bush successfully pushed through Congress...

Washington, D.C.- More than 70 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, sent a letter...

Last week, President Barack Obama once again did the unusual by participating in a panel discussion as part of Georgetown...

A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) by three Harvard economists provides conclusive evidence that...

California Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D) You only need to take a look at the committees California Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D)...

A correctional facility is a difficult situation to be in, but solitary confinement is a whole other monster.  There’s no...

On May 5, 2015, Oklahoma's Republican dominated state legislature passed a bill allowing school districts to appoint school personnel to...

BASW AGM via Twitter @SimonHadelyPix Today, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is holding a members conference in order...

In an issue brief from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, policy analyst Nick Bunker weighed in on the ongoing...

Of all those actively seeking the presidency, former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton seems to be...

Failing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, erasing the State's earned income tax credits for low wage working,...

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

Howard University School of Social Work Students at Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill  (from Left to Right) Latoya Parker, Ne'Presha...

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...

Social workers can learn from Mahatma Gandhi on how to step into the light. How to raise your voice 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...