Social Workers as Elected Officials and Why We Need More
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NASW Endorses Joe Biden for President
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) enthusiastically endorses Joe Biden for president in 2020. During his nearly ...
6 Tips for Navigating Political Discussions at the Holiday Table
As families gear up to celebrate the winter holiday season together, a course of politics is likely their least favorite ...
Kamala Harris is the Fighter Our Country Needs
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) asks a question as U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee. ...
Emotions and Politics: Our Role to Undo Damage of Hateful Politics
Photo Credit: Common Sense Media When I first read the news about four Congresswomen being told by the President of ...
Brexit: Paradise Lost – or Have We Forgotten?
For over a year now the UK has been wracked with a host of political scandals which rival the most ...
Florida Politicians Court Puerto Ricans, But Will They Vote?
Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Maria plowed through the Island of Puerto Rico causing $139 billion in damage and killing ...
Why the United States Needs a Woman in the Presidency
Even had Hillary Clinton prevailed in the 2016 presidential contest, the United States would still have arrived late to the ...
Study Finds Fringe Communities on Reddit and 4chan Have High Influence on Flow of Alternative News to Twitter
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cyprus University of Technology and University College London have conducted the first large-scale ...
CHIP Demise Devastating to Millions of American Children
Congress allowed the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire Oct. 1, leading to the demise of one of ...
Can We Talk About Climate Change For A Moment?
Three Hurricanes Looming off the East Coast of the United States It is becoming increasingly more difficult to deny the ...
NASW-Michigan and Emerge Michigan Partner to Train Social Workers to Run for Office
NASW-Michigan Testimony for Public Hearing Re: House Bills 4188, 4189, 4190 (adoption/foster care) The National Association of Social Workers – ...
Transgender TV Characters Have the Power to Shape Audience Attitudes
Watching transgender characters on fictional TV shows has the power to influence attitudes toward transgender people and policy issues, according ...
Study Examines Tolerance of Political Lies
Why do political figures appear to be able to get away with mild truth bending and sometimes even outrageous lies? ...
On Emotional Intelligence: What Trump’s Reaction to Flynn Tells Us
Emotional intelligence. It’s not just a Time magazine-worthy buzzword anymore. Now that we’ve got a catchy name for it, it’s ...
How Hillary Changed Politics for Women
Hillary Clinton's first interview after the election with CNN on May 02, 2017 She didn’t win the election and we ...
Justin Trudeau: How One Person Can Positively Change The World
Political ideology is not something everyone thinks about, but for Social Workers it is infused in our profession whether we ...
The US Department of Agriculture Has Removed All of Its Inspection Records–Here’s Why it Matters
The United States Department of Agriculture has recently removed all inspection records from its website--this means that inspection records from ...
Building a Political Agenda for Social Work
The foundational values of human rights and social justice have always been compounded with socialism and social democracy as core ...
Three Ways to Reduce Power and Privilege
Pure and honest political conservatism as an ideology is often at the heart of our global problems - it unapologetically ...
