Archive for September 2024

Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and Payment for Placements (P4P)(Opens in a new window) recognize the significant impact of the cost of higher education on students’ overall well-being and are committed to making social work education more accessible. CSWE remains committed to collaborating with the P4P movement(Opens in a new window) regarding ways to reduce the cost of social work education, including paid internship opportunities.

In a recent report, the four surviving former lords chief justice of England and Wales have laid out how changes in sentence lengths and aggressive sentencing legislation have increased the prison population. As they write: “Over the half-century that we have been involved in the law, custodial sentence lengths have approximately doubled and the same is true of prison numbers. The connection between the two is obvious”

A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were born into very low-opportunity neighborhoods, and that babies born into these neighborhoods had a 16-percent greater risk of being born preterm. The study sheds new light on the health consequences of structural racism and historically discriminatory practices — such as redlining and disproportionate exposures to pollutants — that continue to shape modern-day neighborhood conditions and circumstances.

Trust is the glue that binds us: it is the force of the social contract and the bedrock of democracy. Trust fosters co-operation, strengthens social cohesion, facilitates policy implementation and encourages public engagement and participation. Without trust, societies fall victim to fragmentation, which favours populism and undermines social stability amid geopolitical confrontation.