Archive for September 2025

Zohran Mamdani, center left, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, center right, joined a Labor Day parade in Manhattan on Saturday. Union support has almost exclusively lined up behind Mr. Mamdani.

UConn School of Social Work Ph.D. student, Laura Moynihan’s research builds on her earlier work with advance care planning tools for adolescents and young adults facing life-limiting conditions. In January 2025, she and a multi-institutional team led by Lori Wiener, Ph.D., at the National Institutes of Health, published findings in the Journal of Palliative Medicine evaluating a revised version of Voicing My CHOiCES (VMC), a widely used guide to help young patients express their wishes about medical care and quality of life.

Over the past few months, RFK Jr. has brought the internationally renowned agency to its knees. He has proposed cutting the agency’s budget by close to 50 percent, destroyed programs responsible for monitoring maternal health and lead poisoning of children in the US at CDC, disbanded the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics and the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice within the National Center for Environmental Health, which is meant to keep our water safe to drink and address environmental causes of childhood asthma. In an article in April, reporters at Wired documented the thousands of CDC employees who had been laid off, endangering these programs and others serving millions of Americans. But all of this was a mere prologue to the Wednesday Night Massacre at CDC last week, in which RFK Jr. tried to fire the new CDC director, Dr. Susan Monarez, whom he had selected to run the agency and had just been confirmed by the Senate earlier this summer.

Cygnet Social Care’s Got Talent competition took place on September 3rd, at Wythenshawe Forum Hall in Manchester. It celebrated the diverse abilities and talents of the people supported by Cygnet’s wide range of social care services.

Cognitive skills aren’t the only thing at stake when we rely too heavily on AI to do our reading work for us. We also miss out on so much of what makes reading enjoyable – encountering a moving piece of dialogue, relishing a turn of phrase, connecting with a character. AI’s lure of efficiency is tantalizing. But it risks undermining the benefits of literacy.

After years in social work, Powell DiGangi started Beam, which partners with building and construction companies to offer support and resources through trained social work professionals. DiGangi saw the strain that life’s common obstacles put on people’s ability to show up and function well at work, and the impact this has on employers.

Europe’s twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.

A hospital needs help identifying a patient who was found injured at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. He stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 143 pounds with an average build. He has brown eyes and black hair. Anyone who recognizes the man is asked to call clinical social workers Cristol Perez at 323-409-4317 or Brian Dillon at 323-409-3134. The public can also call the L.A. General Medical Center’s Department of Social Work at 323-409-5253 or, after hours from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m., call 323-409-6883. On weekends, the public can call 323-409-5254.