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Others, like Claire, felt the scheme was not value for money. “The fast-track schemes rarely work and Think Ahead seems like a very expensive scheme. Those trained through these schemes often don’t stay in frontline [social work] or leave the profession altogether as soon as they realise it’s not for them,” she said.
An attempt to make assisted dying legal in England in Wales continues to make its way through parliament, with MPs currently scheduled to have a final vote on the bill in June.
As part of the Provost’s Honors Symposium during UW-Eau Claire’s Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, Emily Casey and research teammates presented a study of student self-reported health and financial impacts of cannabis use. Dr. Aaron Willis, Assistant Professor of Social Work, served as faculty mentor.
More than 3.3 million people live below the poverty line, according to the 2022 Poverty in Australia Snapshot by the Australia Council of Social Service.
In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in just two years. These weren’t hastily erected barracks or rows of identical homes. They were thoughtfully designed neighborhoods, complete with parks, schools, shops and sewer systems. In just two years, this federal initiative provided housing for almost 100,000 people.
Budget documents obtained by the Guardian through public records requests reveal that several counties have put the money toward hiring prosecutors, acquiring police gadgets and police vehicles, and covering sheriff costs. Washington county, the state’s second-largest jurisdiction, budgeted twice as much of its funds for police and district attorney salaries as it did on community programs, while two other counties used the money for laser devices that are meant to detect drugs but have been criticized as useless. Above: Roberto Paredes of El Jardín, a non-profit that serves people with substance-use disorders, does outreach
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt emphasized one primary factor in the rise of authoritarianism that has little obvious connection to politics: loneliness. While we usually think of loneliness as not having our social needs met, Arendt defined the word as something deeper. Loneliness happens when there are no shared objective facts and no potential collective action to solve shared challenges. It’s a state of being where you can’t trust others. Loneliness, in Arendt’s telling, inflames the connective tissues of a society. It weakens the body politic so that demagogues and despots can prey. “What prepares men for totalitarian domination,” she wrote, “… is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience.”