Matthew Cohen, MSW Archive
According to Nationmaster.com, the United States imprisons about 715 individuals out of 100,000; the highest ratio in the world. In Madison, Wisconsin 1,000 faith-based social justice advocates gathered on Thursday for a day of action that is concerned about reducing the State’s imprisonment ratio. …
Social Justice Solutions turns 1 today. It is truly amazing to see a plan, concocted as a masters project, come to life in almost exactly the way in which it was conceptualized. I want to thank the staff of SJS, …
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the Voting Rights Act brought to the court by Shelby County, Alabama. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires states to get approval from the Department of Justice before making changes in …
In many ways the West has been invaded by the East. Spiritual disciplines such as Yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism have become common influences on Western culture. Understanding how these traditions will merge with typically Western disciplines, such as philosophy and …
Extremist group activity in America is on the rise. Given the weak economy, this should not come as much of a surprise. The Southern Poverty Law Center, as reported by CNN, is reporting that there is a 7 percent increase in …
New York State continues to try and dig its way out of a fiscal mess, in doing so the State Legislature continues to indiscriminately take advantage of vulnerable populations. In February there was a push to have a permanent license exemption passed that …
A report from the National Commission On Physician Payment Reform is calling for the end of “fee-for-service” for Medicare within seven years. “The way we pay doctors is profoundly flawed,” commission co-chairman Steven Schroeder, a professor of health and health care at …
It is temping to view morality as some absolute fixed code, but it is important to understand that it stems from the beliefs and traditions of people as much as it shapes them. As a result, morality shifts with each generation. As such, law is mostly …
The title is a statistic from the video and brings the theme of wealth inequality down to an easy understandable equation. The Average 1% CEO, one human being, makes 380x more then the average middle class worker. As it was put in the video, …
Aaron Shwartz pioneer of Reddit, Creative Commons, and RSS among other things, was a political activist fighting for the reality of information sharing in the digital age. He was arrested in 2011 for breaking into the JSTOR system and downloading copies of …
