Archive for May 2025

Delta cooperative farm, by Dorothea Lange, Hillhouse, Mississippi, June 1937.

Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College has announced a new partnership with Northern Michigan University. Under the agreement, students can get a general studies associate degree before transferring those credits to work toward a bachelor’s degree in social work.

On April 28, the City Council of Burlington, Vermont, voted unanimously to approve opening an overdose prevention center (OPC) in the city. The state authorized such facilities in 2024, and this is slated to be the first to open—though a number of steps remain before that will happen, including determining the exact location, so the timeline is unclear.

The government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, according to internal Department for Work and Pensions forecasts obtained by the Guardian. The figures, sourced under the Freedom of Information Act, are in addition to the projected 250,000 people who will be newly driven below the poverty line by the cuts, as set out by the government’s impact assessment in March.

I’ve been running Four Square, a charity supporting people who are homeless in Edinburgh, for almost seven years now – and this model serves us well. Our charity shop, Edinburgh Furniture Initiative, employs over 20 staff and provides over 4,000 hours of volunteering each year.

Key national officials of the country’s leading social workers organization at its 28th national forum and convention in Metro Manila.