Comprehensive evidence points to increased vulnerability of workers to forced labor in global supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic, an analysis published today by the Modern...
In recent years, the idea of tuition-free colleges and universities in the United States has made its way into mainstream political debates. In many ways, this...
In the 1980s and 1990s, concerns about teen pregnancy voiced by policymakers and pundits helped garner support for welfare reform – as the public reached a...
Audre Lorde famously wrote that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” and in 2020, few passages ring truer. According to the National Association...
Cities are hubs of human activity, supercharging the exchange of ideas and interactions. Scaling theory has established that, as cities grow larger, they tend to produce...
Recently, I had chance to watch “The Inequality Movie” narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich where it outlines how the United States has one of...
Last year, the Society for Social Work and Research Conference in Washington, DC, the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) unveiled its 12...
Saturday’s rally in Freedom Park on New York City’s Roosevelt Island provided Hillary Clinton with an opportunity to present ideas about what she will do to...
I started writing this article at a time when hundreds of people were taking to the streets to protest the death of Freddie Gray. Of course,...
The purpose of education in a democratic society is to instill the values of cooperation, fairness and justice into the hearts of our students. I would...
It has taken a great amount of time for me to process what has happened over the past several weeks in our country with regards to...
As a social worker on the Hill, I have had a front row seat during battles over the welfare state. Usually, the main combatants are Republican...
Why are you a teacher, and what is the point of doing the job you do? Teachers really need to think about those questions and hopefully...
Should Republicans take control of the United States Senate there will be many political pundits faulting Democrats for their inability to get black voters to go...
Living in a country so focused on the reproductive behaviors of women, from contraception to abortion, it seems preposterous that despite the myriad policy imperatives that...
The arrest of 12 and 13 year old boys for aggravated robbery and murder respectively in West Auckland a couple of weeks ago highlights a growing malaise in...
A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....