By NASW Public Policy Associate Rachel Boyer, MSW, LMSW The 119th Congress is considering passage of an agenda proposed by President Trump to extend and expand tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals. Currently, that looks like strip-mining health care and...
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By Melvin H. Wilson, MBA, LCSWSenior Policy ConsultantSocial Justice and Human RightsThe incoming Biden-Harris Administration’s firm commitment to immigration reform and making it one of the first issues they addressed on their first day in office is a welcome turn of...
By Melvin H. Wilson, MBA, LCSWSenior Policy ConsultantSocial Justice and Human RightsThose of us who are elated with the outcomes of the two senatorial elections in Georgia have a truly short time to relish the victories. Given the many crisis-level public health,...
Vaccine distribution is being managed in phases and groups on a state level. NASW anticipates social workers fall in every phase depending on population served, level of direct client interaction, work setting, age and health status.
By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSWNASW Senior Policy Advisor, Social Justice and Human RightsLeadership in the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 4 reintroduced the For the People Act (H.R. 1). This legislation, the first bill introduced in the 117th Congress, reaffirms the...
Two recent incidents of apparent police misconduct have received national attention that NASW finds to be deeply problematic.
Social worker Michael Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, has been appointed to the Centers for Disease Control's Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) for a five year-year term starting in 2022. Lindsey is executive director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty...