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The media have been complaining about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s failure to communicate her policy stances. She gave them an earful last week when she accepted the inaugural Barbara Jordan Public Private Leadership Medallion at Texas Southern University and …
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s amendment recognizing the Congressional role in debating military force against the Islamic State passed the Appropriations Committee in a bipartisan vote. This amendment recognized that Congress should exercise its constitutional duty to debate …
The Republicans’ decisive sweep of the 2014 midterm elections should be a wake up call for Democrats. There are lessons to be learned. People will not go to the polls and vote in large numbers if they do not have …
Social workers should keep our eyes on several races for seats in the House of Representatives in November. Although four of the seven social workers in the House—Reps. Susan Davis (CA-53), Luis Gutierrez (IL-4), Barbara Lee (CA-13) and Niki Tsongas—are …
There are seven social workers in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kristie Holmes wants to be the eighth. An adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, she is one of 21 candidates who will …
In a speech during a forum on social mobility at the Brookings Institution today, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stated emphatically: “Let’s do what can do to create new opportunities for those who need it most and change the course …
Government Shutdown 2013: Thoughts of a Jaded Captain. We’ve all done it. We bought something on credit we really couldn’t afford, we got a fancy-shmancy new and shiny credit card because Alec Baldwin, or Jimmy Fallon, or whoever else is …
The war hawks were circling the White House after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians on August 21. As pressure mounted on President Obama to make good on his threat that using chemical weapons would …
I started writing this post by raising the question whether Congress was failing the American people. But I realized at most it would be a rhetorical question. With an 83 percent disapproval rating in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, …
Compromise is hard, one of the secrets of the art of compromise is having all parties leave the table believing that they won. And yet, when it comes to social workers, it seems as though compromise means getting the least, …