Archive for July 2024

Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush…. During Bush’s time in Congress, she has pursued a strong progressive agenda on renewable energy, climate resilience, public transit, environmental justice, veterans’ health, and women’s rights. Like her fellow Squad members, Bush has elevated left and working-class concerns in national political discourse and pushed the Democrats left, strengthening legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act.

Today, the majority of professional firefighters in California are trained through apprenticeship programs, said Yvonne de la Peña, who oversees the joint committee. She said getting to that point took more than 30 years of incremental work, negotiating apprenticeship agreements department by department.

2U’s struggles have played out in what’s become an increasingly hostile environment for online-program managers, or OPMs. More colleges are looking to move their online operations in-house, dissatisfied with revenue-share arrangements that can siphon off 50 percent or more of tuition dollars.

The city’s principal social worker Jenny Rogers says the city’s turnover rate in children’s services is 9.4% compared to 15.9% nationally, which is through initiatives to recruit and retain staff, Wolverhampton City Council says. Meanwhile, the turnover rate in adult services is 10.6%, compared to 14.5% across England.

Migrant healthcare workers protest outside the Department of Justice in Dublin against the fact that the current family reunion policy denies them the right to bring their spouses or children to Ireland.

Since 2013, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has allocated 2,500 bursaries per year to students starting their second year of a three-year undergraduate social work course, along with 1,500 to trainees beginning a master’s qualification, which tends to take two years.

The Royal Commission of inquiry into Abuse in Care says at least 200,000 of the estimated 655,000 children and young people put in the care of state or religious institutions since 1950 were subjected to abuse including violence and sexual abuse.