Archive for October 2024

BASW member David Jones on the importance of helping scriptwriters get it right

Catholic cultural warriors often don’t remember the Catholic Church’s history in promoting vital social justice programs like Social Security. Worse still, there are those Catholics who want to rewrite that history altogether. Together these culture warriors, along with the authors of Project 2025, are not only undermining the work of the Catholic Church but Catholicism itself.

Elm City COMPASS announced expansions to its crisis response service…. It emerged as a response to the murder of George Floyd, in the wake of demands to minimize the role of police in managing health and housing crises. COMPASS dispatch teams include an unarmed social worker and a peer with lived experience, who respond to crises together.

Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. “It’s hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum,” says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program provides important flood insurance relief, researchers say. But due to its design, it’s used more in communities with greater means to protect themselves, while lower-resourced areas benefit less.