Archive for October 2024

‘When you have a short supply of those professionals to start with, what happens is a domino effect,’ says Kathy Jones, the President of the Prince Edward Island Association of Social Workers.

The original proposal for a National Care Service was inspired by the NHS; a network of care boards across Scotland, all part of a new agency which could ensure high standards. Ministers said it would end the “postcode lottery” in care provision and “ensure consistently high-quality care”. Those are undoubtedly laudable aims, which few have argued against. But the detail has always been an issue.

Labour wants action. But rent caps, rising interest rates and restrictions on councils have hit the affordable homes sector hard. Above: Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, has set a goal of 1.5m homes built over the course of this Parliament.

Self-reported numbers showed that in 2022, USC admitted the highest percentage of students with legacy and donor ties of any California university, 14.4 percent. It was followed by Stanford and Santa Clara, where those numbers were 13.8 percent and 13.1 percent respectively.

Both major parties—and often the mainstream press—ignore that when it comes to fentanyl, Covid, HIV, mpox, or most social contagions, the community spread inside the United States (or inside people’s homes) is due to America being America, not due to outside agitators.

The Foodbank of Southern California — a grocery-and-meal distribution hub serving hundreds of food pantries in Long Beach and South Los Angeles — has closed its doors amid a state investigation into a possible multimillion-dollar fraud and embezzlement scheme, according to state officials and a nonprofit executive. The closure is expected to severely affect thousands of low-income families, seniors and homeless people who rely on food distribution sites for their nutritional needs.

Militaries want films like Top Gun because they make the armed forces seem glamorous, exciting, social and sexy. So they often give filmmakers cheap or free access to billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded jet fighters, aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. In return, the movies serve as sophisticated, enticing forms of recruitment propaganda.

To truly change history, it is not enough for the masses to rise up; they must subsequently win concessions such as ceasefires, fair elections, environmental protections, or new policies that promote racial justice. While protests continue erupting with remarkable frequency, they are also failing, at historic rates, to achieve protesters’ stated goals. As Time hailed the power of the protester, the rate at which mass protests succeeded in meeting their objectives was plummeting, from two in three during the early 2000s to just one in six by the early 2020s.