By Scott Wong
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Nearly 20 House Democrats are urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote on bipartisan legislation to boost funding for police as crime surges ahead of the midterms.
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By Jake Watkins
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It is common for student workers to get second jobs and sell plasma to stay afloat,” John Ferrand from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition told People’s World. Ferrand said that salaries at Indiana University can be as much as $20,000 below a living wage,” as a calculator developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lists for Monroe County Indiana]”
By Nina Totenberg
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he U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that residents of Puerto Rico are ineligible for a federal welfare program.
By Janice Andrews and Michael Reisch
Read the full article from The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, here.
This paper explores the impact of McCarthyism on the ideology, education,
practice, and public image of group work. The authors argue that the
witchhunts that occured during the period and its climate of widespread
fear purges and political conservatism diminished the gains the social work
profession had made in the 1930s and 1940s through its participation in
progressive activities and left the profession, particularly social group work
ill-prepared for the issues and activism of the 1960s and 1970s
By Araceli Gomez-Aldana
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As Evanston continues to roll out their reparations program how do residents feel about the process?
By Yonah Freemark
Read the full article from The Urban Institute, here.
Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, a shaky recovery from 2020’s recession, and, now, the war in Ukraine, inflation has shot up in the United States and in countries worldwide. For Americans, recent dramatic surges in gas prices and rent have increased the costs of daily life at a quicker rate than wages.
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