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ernie Sanders has not chosen the easy road in American politics. During the Cold War, in the early 1960s, he decided to join the Young People’s Socialist League. In the 1970s and ‘80s, he pursued third-party and independent politics in Vermont. In the 1990s and ’00s, he was among the few progressive voices in a rightward-moving Congress. All along the way, however, from his years in the Burlington mayor’s office to his stint as an outsider in the House of Representatives to his sometimes lonely work in the most elite of all American bodies, the US Senate, Sanders remained committed to what he calls a “political revolution”—a mobilization of working-class people from the bottom-up to create egalitarian change.

In the 3-2 vote, the three Democrats on the board voted as a bloc to reject recognizing JFA, which is running Dr. West (above), an opponent of the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, as its presidential candidate. This is despite the fact that the party submitted over 17,140 signed and verified petitions, over 3,200 more than the 13,865 required by state law…. the NCSBE did admit We the People Party (WTP), which has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a stalwart defender of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, as its candidate…. Both parties submitted more signatures than required prior to the June 1 deadline. Nevertheless, last month, after complaints about the petitions were raised to the board by the North Carolina State Democratic Party and a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC, Clear Choice Action, Democrats on the board refused to grant party status to JFA or WTP.

Such a diverse selection of ties.

“We look at our oncology patients as [the people they were] before they came to us,” said Jessica Kreitman, head of social work at the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute and the Tisch Cancer Center at Mount Sinai in New York. “They [had] their own concerns, their own issues, their own financial challenges. And then they received a cancer diagnosis, which doesn’t pause their other concerns and needs.”

“We know nature plays an important role in human health, but behavioral health and health care providers often neglect to think about it as an intervention,” said Joanna Bettmann, a Professor at the University of Utah College of Social Work and lead author on the study. “We set out to distill some evidence-based guidance for those providers.”

The first properly mounted attack on the commercialization of the university came more than a century ago, not in the UK but in the United States. In The Higher Learning in America (1918), Thorstein Veblen, a sociologist and author of the classic analysis of conspicuous consumption The Theory of the Leisure Class, lambasted the growing conception of the university “as a business house dealing in merchantable knowledge,” where corporate interests prevail over intellectual ideals. “This incursion of pecuniary ideals in academic policy,” Veblen bemoaned, leads to the “supersession of learning by worldly wisdom”.

Plans to introduce a cap on social care costs – which would limit people’s lifetime care cost contributions to a maximum of £86,000 – in October 2025 will be impossible to deliver, the County Councils Network (CCN) said.

Unison Scotland local government lead David O’Connor said: “We know councils are struggling to recruit carers, social workers and school staff. These are the essential services we all rely on. Local government can no longer be neglected like this.”

Japan’s “super-ageing” society, where the proportion of older people is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, has put immense pressure on the workforce. Advances in technology are stepping in to address these challenges, but also present issues for the world’s largest health profession: nurses.

OIG received about 27,000 scam allegations in the second quarter:
– About 45% of reported cases claimed there was a problem with a person’s Social Security number.
– Nearly 17% of cases mentioned a problem with Social Security benefits.
– One-third of scams used official-looking documents or images (such as the Social Security logo).

It’s a Wonderful Life and the Dream of Small-Town Life

Dr. Saltanat Childress is an assistant professor at UTA’s School of Social Work focused on family well-being, economic empowerment, and improving the responses of criminal justice.

This time around, the Trump team will be more prepared to govern. To assist in that effort, the conservative Heritage Foundation has spearheaded an effort known as Project 2025 to recruit and train employees to serve in the administration and provide a blueprint to radically reshape the federal government, higher education policy included. Trump has recently tried to distance himself from Project 2025, although several of its proposals—abolishing the Education Department, for one, and rescinding Biden’s Title IX rule—overlap with his own agenda and the party’s platform. Further, several former officials who worked in the DeVos-led department helped write the Education Department section of Project 2025.

Opioids have long been known as natural substances with substantial pharmacological effect. They have been used as effective painkillers. Researchers have now identified a natural active substance that may prove to be an effective alternative to opioids in the long run and could also help mitigate the opioid crisis.

In Helena, Montana, three machines purchased by Lewis and Clark County have been distributing free Narcan nasal spray for more than a year.

“Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have a dark and dystopian vision for America’s future, in which women are hunted across state lines for accessing basic healthcare,” said one Democratic lawmaker.

NIH study highlights need for greater education, training, and policies to increase adoption of evidence-based care for addiction among physicians

15-year adult social care workforce strategy, developed by Skills for Care, says action needed to address profession’s high vacancy and turnover rates, in order to meet future needs for complex care

A teenager has killed himself at one of Scotland’s only young offender facilities, a month after a Holyrood bill intended to prevent under-18s from being sent to prison became law…. His death comes five years after a significant review of mental health services for young people in custody was conducted after a succession of high-profile suicides, and as children’s rights campaigners claimed the Scottish government had been repeatedly warned that continuing to imprison children put lives at risk.

The new study is based on a large, diverse group of families at research sites across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It confirms the same research group’s 2011 findings about the likelihood of autism in siblings.

“Social workers are on the frontlines in responding to the Administration’s priorities, including meeting children’s mental health needs, responding to the opioid epidemic, and addressing maternal depression,” said HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson. “Today’s announcement is a critical step in helping social workers serve people in need, particularly in rural and underserved communities across the country.”

All the stories in CIO Views are paid for, a salesperson for the magazine confirmed. That’s despite the fact that none of the stories are labeled as such, and the publication in many ways presents as independent and journalistic…. Several publications stand ready to satisfy colleges’ demand for journalism-ish stories. Two university media-relations officers told The Chronicle they’re increasingly the targets of pitches from websites like CIO Views. Above: A selection of CIO Views covers

The North Carolina General Assembly passed a law in 2012 allowing the use of continuous alcohol monitoring systems as a condition for pretrial release or probation, to mitigate punishments for impaired driving offenses and to ensure compliance with child custody and visitation orders. These systems, commonly referred to as CAM bracelets, fit around the ankle similar to GPS-tracking ankle monitors that are often used as a condition for bail or probation. CAM bracelets monitor the presence of alcohol through the skin by testing samples of sweat every 30 minutes. Above: SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring® (SCRAM CAM®)

Réhabex’s roaming “Réhabus,” unveiled on Friday, will offer people access to a shower, laundry room, clothes, snack area and a private area to speak with a social worker…. Patrick Pilon, Réhabex’s general manager, said the project is a response to the fact that “[some] people to this day still do not have access to … basic needs for human dignity.”

By and large, public libraries have stayed public. One reason is that the private sector is hard-pressed to find a library substitute. Neoliberals gut public school budgets with the promise of so-called independent and charter schools, but in the case of libraries, personal books in private homes can’t approach the scale of what a library can offer, and no private infrastructure exists that could absorb the public work of the library. Beyond books, libraries offer storytime and play groups, film screenings and knitting classes, English language lessons and literacy training — all of it open to anyone in the community, all of it free at the point of use and participation. The programs are always changing and tightly linked to the changing needs and interests of the public. There is simply no private-sector mechanism for the production of public services at the scale of the library.

The standards will replace the current regime, which Social Work England inherited from the Health and Care Professions Council, in summer 2025, from when the regulator will use them to approve new courses and reapprove existing ones.

A total of 91% of directors reported that increased NHS pressures will lead to adult social care taking responsibility for services that previously would have been delivered by health providers.

The conservative Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is behind the lawsuit. Becket Fund successfully represented Michigan’s St. Vincent Catholic Charities in a case focused on whether religious foster care and adoption agencies can decline to work with same-sex couples. The suit names several defendants, including Gov. Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, Elizabeth Hertel, who serves as director of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services, the Michigan boards of counseling, social workers and psychology and leaders at the state’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Ultimately, the suit asks the court to find that the law violates constitutional rights to free speech, free exercise and due process and seeks a permanent injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing the law.

Professional right-wing media figure Jack Posobiec, sporting facial stubble that was groomed to an embarrassingly meticulous degree, came to preach the Gospel of Trump, the savior who would bring salvation to the persecuted victims of elite globalist leftism. In order to ​“save Western civilization,” he said, the Right must enact ​“absolute reciprocity,” to visit upon their communist foes — meaning, I think, everyone to the left of Steve Bannon — the same outrages that Republicans themselves have suffered. “If they are going to hold J6 investigations to target patriots, then we will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. ​“We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.”

The Healing Lodge, a community and recovery center for Indigenous people, sits at the edge of downtown Millinocket.

Nottinghamshire children service’s best Ofsted report for 20 years helps put its ‘dark history’ behind it, the councillor responsible says. Hundreds of youngsters were sexually or physically abused while in the council’s children’s homes and foster care between the 1960s and 1990s.

Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education with BASW Chair Julia Ross

Australian financial regulators said Monday that four of the country’s largest banks had agreed to repay $20 million in account fees to hundreds of thousands of customers on low incomes, including many Indigenous “First Nation” people

We combed through a month’s worth of receipts from more than two dozen people across the U.S. to better understand our relationship to the food we buy.

These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.

Monica Lo has spent the last six years as an advocate and program coordinator at The Women’s Community, Inc., a nonprofit based in Wausau, Wisconsin.

What a difference a disastrous debate makes. It turns out all of it was true: the Democratic Party’s top echelons did work to make Biden the nominee, they didn’t choose him because they thought he was the strongest candidate against Trump, and they were motivated above all by the desperate, urgent need to block Sanders from the party nomination. But don’t take it from us — Democrats themselves are suddenly more than happy to tell you.

Dr Denise Turner, Operational Head of Social Work at the university, said: “Uche has worked with me and UKSWA to create a booklet for international students which is widely available and covers practical issues like British weather, where to get favourite foods and cutting afro-textured hair. These are issues Uche faced herself when she came to England in a balmy September when she was so cold she could not think straight!”

As many as half of all patients admitted to hospital and other healthcare facilities are malnourished. This has serious consequences for the individual in terms of unnecessary suffering, poorer quality of life and mortality. Providing nutrients can alleviate these problems, but not enough attention is paid to this knowledge, according to researchers in a new article.

Engraving of Adam Smith, based on a portrait by James Tassie from 1787

Mental health experts, community clinics and politicians are increasingly calling attention to barriers Latinos might face in seeking treatment — like the lack of mental health professionals who are Latino and speak Spanish or other languages — and working to create new programs to address access issues. Above: Dr. Fernando Taveras, a psychiatrist and Hispanic mental healthcare expert with SOMOS Community Care Clinic

Facing increased flooding from a rising Pacific Ocean, the Quinault Indian Nation has been working for over a decade to relocate Taholah, Washington their largest village, to a new site on higher ground. Above: A row of houses sits feet away from the Pacific Ocean, which often floods through and over the 15-foot seawall during winter king tides and storms on the Quinault reservation in Taholah.

Five years later, Saunders transferred to Kelowna in syilx homelands. While working as a social worker with MCFD’s Indigenous Integrated Family Service and Guardianship, Saunders opened 24 joint bank accounts with youth, whose wellbeing he was supposed to look out for. For six and a half years, starting in June 2011, he issued more than 850 ministry cheques to the youth, which he deposited in each youth’s account. The cheques totalled more than $460,000. Since the funds were in a joint account, Saunders was then able to transfer the money to his personal bank account. Most of the cheques, which ranged from support payments to startup funds for youth aging out of care, were in amounts of $579.

At 2.9 watt-hours per ChatGPT request, AI queries require about 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit research firm. Emerging AI capabilities such as audio and video generation are likely to add to this energy demand. Above: A data center in Ashburn, Virginia

The NSW Ombudsman’s report, which has been labelled as “horrifying” by child welfare advocates, is the fourth damning report in as many months into the Department of Communities and Justice’s child protection services. The Ombudsman found 75 per cent of children reported to be at risk of harm were not visited by a caseworker, prompting the watchdog to launch a maladministration investigation into the department’s response to these reports.

The Malta Association for the Counselling Profession (MACP), The Malta Association of Social Workers (MASW), and the Malta Chamber of Psychologists (MCP) said Saturday they remain very concerned at the amendments according to Bill 104 being proposed by the government.

John Hutton, M.D., who studies the effects of screen time on the developing brain, has penned several book series aimed at promoting early reading and reducing screen time.

Tan Tianniu welcomed Tian Hong and his party on behalf of the university. He pointed out that in order to fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important requirements for Jiangsu’s work and the spirit of his important reply to young scholars who returned from studying abroad at Nanjing University, the university issued the “Nanjing University Comprehensive Support for Chinese Modernization Jiangsu New Practice Action Plan”, referred to as the “7291” action plan.