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“He’s in the pocket of Republican billionaires … who are racist,” the incumbent said. “He is also not just anti-Black racist, he’s anti-Muslim racist”…. Latimer, who is benefiting from a multi-million-dollar support campaign by pro-Israel AIPAC, has said Bowman’s criticism of the Jewish state stands in stark contrast to mainstream Democrats.

“This is a historic opportunity for the United States to provide global leadership on tax fairness and also strengthen the administration’s vital domestic efforts to achieve a fairer tax system,” wrote Sanders (I-Vt.) and Omar (D-Minn.), who were joined by 16 Democrats in Congress.

George Latimer, the corporate-funded primary challenger gunning for the congressional seat in New York’s 16th district currently occupied by Rep. Jamaal Bowman, for years faced criticism for failing to fulfill a federal mandate to desegregate Westchester County, a review of the public record shows…. Latimer’s House campaign is now being backed by massive amounts of outside spending from the United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-run super PAC funded in large part by real estate interests.

A 1996 social welfare policy draft that the health ministry initiated, needs to move beyond its current status quo. Therefore, one cannot help but ask, which stakeholder should spearhead the development of social service policies or frameworks? Should it be left to a single sector? a combination of many or to the overarching regulatory body, specifically the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA)?

The number of places in council-run children’s homes in England has fallen by a third since 2012 – at the same time as places in privately run profit-making children’s homes have soared, according to an Observer analysis of government data.

Loneliness may be harmful to our daily health, according to a new study focused on understanding the subtleties of loneliness and how variations in daily feelings of loneliness effect short- and long-term well-being. The researchers said the work provides more evidence in support of the devastating impact of loneliness and isolation on physical health in the country, calling it a public health crisis.

Reverend William Barber speaks during a demonstration at the U.S. Supreme Court during the MoveOn and Poor People’s Build Back Better Action on November 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced eligibility for a new round of summer cost of living payments. The information released shows that thousands are set to receive financial assistance between now and the end of September.

This webpage is based on research funded by the Electoral Commission to inform their public awareness work with under-registered groups including people with a mental illness. The information shared is the work of Centre for Mental Health, drawing on our research and the ongoing efforts of our partners to ensure that people with a mental illness are aware of and able to assert their rights as citizens through the UK’s democratic process.

New research points to a potential approach to reducing the risk of diabetes associated with widely prescribed antipsychotic medications. The study presents early evidence in support of co-administering antipsychotic medications that block dopamine receptors in the brain alongside drugs that stop antipsychotics from blocking those same receptors in the pancreas. This approach could limit metabolic side effects, including impaired control over blood sugar, or dysglycemia.

The role of social workers is to support peace and nonviolence. IFSW is looking forward to the response from both unions to ensure that the ethical principles are adhered to in both countries.

The fundamental crisis of Precarious Manhood looks to me to be the inability to support a family by doing what was traditionally man’s work—through largely manual labor. This is partly the result of economic changes: As a consequence of mechanization and the more newly digitized world, it takes fewer workers to build things or produce goods both large and small than it once did. But it’s also partly the result of political changes that since 1980 have offshored manufacturing, demolished unions, and shifted the proceeds of work from labor to capital, from workers to investors.

New construction is dominating Minneapolis’ downtown since the city made it easier to build apartments. In 2019, Minneapolis also became the first major city to eliminate exclusive single-family zoning in its efforts to increase the availability of housing.

If a company fills a river with bird poop to the point that fish in nearby lakes asphyxiate, is it “un-American” to sue them? Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt (above) thinks so.

Editors of Columbia Law Review, a prominent journal run by students from the prestigious university’s law school, say the publication’s board of directors urged them on June 2, 2024, to refrain from publishing an article critical of Israel. After the students published the article online the following day, the board, which includes Columbia Law School faculty members and alumni, had the law review’s website taken down.

Depressive symptoms are linked to subsequent memory decline in older people, while poorer memory is also linked to an increase in depressive symptoms later on, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

The women, who all pursued doctoral degrees or performed academic research under Boaventura’s supervision, made the accusations in a four-and-a-half-hour interview…. Boaventura, an influential thinker on globalisation, epistemology and social change, has denied all wrongdoing, adding that he has never been formally accused of any crime. An inquiry opened in April by Portuguese prosecutors is ongoing. Above: Graffiti on a wall at the University of Coimbra which reads “Boaventura out. We all know”

According to Chu Van Thanh, Deputy Head of the Social Work Section of Children’s Hospital 1, they now take care of the child patients’ emotional well-being as well as giving them financial support. The “Happy Class” makes the time children spend confined to the hospital more enjoyable. Above: 9-year-old Nguyen Hoang Bao from Lam Dong province is eager to practise speaking English with a volunteer teacher.

“Through this meta-analysis, we identified key factors that make the cashless effect stronger or weaker, which individual studies could not find. By doing this, we uncovered new insights that had often been overlooked by other researchers in individual studies,” Schomburgk says.

Gov. Katie Hobbs, who has a background in social work, said that the need for stable housing is even more pressing for seniors and those with disabilities, who make up a disproportionate share of the unhoused population.

Above: Disposable vapes are displayed in a convenience store

But even the weak grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists. “Capital,” Fraser wrote, “tries to have it both ways.” On one hand, “it freeloads off of public power, availing itself of the legal regimes, repressive forces, infrastructures, and regulatory agencies that are indispensable to accumulation.” On the other, “the thirst for profit periodically tempts some fractions of the capitalist class to rebel against public power, to bad-mouth it as inferior to markets, and to scheme to weaken it. In such cases, when short-term interests trump long-term survival, capital once again threatens to destroy the very political conditions of its own possibility.”

Laura Kuzdale alleges in a lawsuit that after eating three “everything bagel bites” before giving birth, hospital workers told her she tested positive for opiates. Then CPS investigators showed up at her door…. What’s more, Kuzdale, who has a master’s degree in social work from the University at Buffalo, says her livelihood will be impacted. As a result of the CPS report, her name has been placed on the state’s registry listing those accused of abuse and neglect, where such reports can remain for as long as 10 years.

BASW wants to see the next UK Government commit to introducing the right for carers to be paid by their employer, with a model like that of maternity leave. There should also be enhanced support for all carers, including young carers.

Efforts to tackle false information through fact-checking or media literacy initiatives increases the public’s skepticism toward “fake news.” However, they also breed distrust in genuine, fact-based news sources, a UZH-led study using online survey experiments in the US, Poland and Hong Kong shows.

The Montreal-based housing advocate – FRAPRU (Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain) – is calling on the Quebec government to double the number of social housing units in the province within 15 years. The organization, which brings together housing committees and citizens’ associations, made the request on Sunday, following a three-day congress in Sherbrooke.

Products containing psychoactive compounds such as cannabis or mushroom extracts are increasing in availability. These “edibles” are often sold as gummy candies, chocolate, or other snack foods. They might contain undisclosed ingredients, including illicit substances, other adulterants, or potentially harmful contaminants that are not approved for use in food.

A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. Police and sheriff’s departments have enabled predators by botching background checks, ignoring red flags and mishandling investigations. Accused cops have used their knowledge of the legal system to stall cases, get charges lowered or evade convictions. Prosecutors have given generous plea deals to officers who admitted to raping and groping minors. Judges have allowed many convicted officers to avoid prison time.

Green Councillor Guy Poultney… said: “The rate of the expansions of both universities massively outpaces the rate at which the [local] authority can reasonably be expected to build new accommodation. The universities are the housing crisis in Bristol and that needs to be borne in mind.”

EU police forces have warned of industrial-scale exploitation of African children by cocaine networks operating in western Europe in cities including Paris and Brussels as they seek to expand Europe’s £10bn cocaine market. Above: Refugee boys in the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla.

KL, father of R, sits on her bed in her old room, which has stayed just the way it was before she went to a Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities facility

People strive to provide good care for loved ones with dementia, all while dealing with frustration and loss.

Numerous child abuse and neglect incidents have made headlines in recent months. But West Virginia’s child welfare systems have struggled with adequate staffing, inaction and lack of transparency for years. Above: West Virginia Department of Human Services Secretary Dr. Cynthia Persily

When Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Michigan governor in 2018, she took aim at Michigan’s bottled water industry — and the state policy that gave it unfettered access to free water. Nestle was extracting hundreds of millions of gallons of groundwater a year, which it bottled and sold under the Ice Mountain brand. The only cost: a $200 yearly fee per site. The company asked the state for a 60% boost in how much it could take from a well that draws from the source of two cold-water trout streams. At the time, the Flint water crisis was still in the spotlight, contributing to broad pushback. Nearly 81,000 public comments opposed the permit request; 75 supported it.

Canada’s always been a pretty boozy country. Around 80 per cent of us drink—a stat that’s remained consistent since the ’80s—and we do so in volumes almost twice the global average. No surprise, then, that the sobriety fad didn’t start here. Ironically, it kicked off in the pub-loving United Kingdom, where, by 2012, alcohol use had dropped by roughly a quarter from an all-time high in the early aughts.

Shelley and her daughter Rose had to move with the rest of their family 200km west to alternative accommodation

It is becoming increasingly clear that spending time in nature can benefit our mental health and wellbeing. But a new study by my colleagues and me shows that you don’t have to actually be in nature to reap the rewards. Simply directing your gaze towards natural elements, even in the middle of a city, can enhance wellbeing.

Leah Casey is a high school student in Holy Heart school in Conception Bay South. Her passion for community work around food and nature sustainability won her the TD scholarship for community leadership.

Dr. Benjamin Gardner, co-author and Reader in Psychology from the University of Surrey, said:
“Forming a habit means connecting a situation you often encounter with the action you usually take. These connections help by creating impulses that push us to do the usual action without thinking. But the pushes from habits are just one of many feelings we might have at any time.”

Montana’s suicide rate has been the highest in the U.S. for the past three years. Most of the deaths involved firearms. But suicide rarely registers in the national debate over guns.

Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate are part of a cohort of internet personalities that’s gaining popularity among young men. Though best-known for their misogyny, they share another core value: climate denialism.

A view of the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in autumn with the Mid-Hudson Bridge across the Hudson River.

Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compromised.” He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to “return our country to a place of godliness.” And Alito offered a blunt assessment of how America’s polarization will ultimately be resolved: “One side or the other is going to win.”

Barnet Council says action is ‘fully lawful’ but union dubs it ‘strike breaking’ and says having social work service managed from outside the local authority is ‘deeply troubling’

Nostalgia was, in Freud’s day, an illness steeped in the past. Today, it can be a joyful emotion that reframes the future. Above: In the Mowing (1874) by Winslow Homer.

According to the joint report, in 2022, Shell donated $25 million to create the Institute for Energy Innovation. This donation gave the oil company a say in the research conducted and the coursework for the university’s new focus on carbon capture, use, and storage.

The residential building where Maria Coto was attacked last month while making a home visit.

A state anti-homelessness program that helps people pay back rent or cover security deposits or moving expenses is facing an anticipated 70% reduction in funding. Above: Apartments at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester.

Historian Lily Geismer’s new book Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality is a comprehensive and critical look at the development of the Democratic Party, from the Watergate Babies to the neoliberal turn under Bill Clinton and beyond. In Geismer’s account, the Democratic Party has not simply been playing defense for half a century; instead, Democrats actively undermined New Deal–era social programs as they sought to marketize public goods for maximum efficiency.