By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor In a sweeping and provocative move, President Donald Trump initiated a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department in August 2025, citing a “crime emergency” -despite data showing a significant drop...
Public safety is not improved by the military, but a well-funded social safety net
The true takeaway is that many Americans made an affirmative statement with their vote. They affirmed that they will not passively allow out of control autocrats and White supremacists to destroy 244 years of a flawed but mostly successful experiment in democracy called America.
By Hannah LiuImmigration and Immigrant Families team, Center for Law and Social PolicyFor more than two years, children and families fleeing danger have been turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border without a chance to seek asylum under a misguided policy called Title...
We are social workers, and we labor in a world of brokenness. We are surrounded by so much death, which makes me question my social work practices.
By Paul R. Pace While every election matters, the November 2022 midterms are imperative because human rights like voting, reproductive health and LGBTQIA+—issues central to social work’s mission and values—are in deep jeopardy. In some states, these rights are...
Recent FBI data regarding low-level marijuana possession as a crime shows there was one marijuana arrest every 90 seconds in this nation in 2020.
The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its mental health workforce discussion draft component of its mental health legislative package