Economy Archive
The national conversation around student loan debts reached a peak last week as Obama signed an executive order capping student loan repayments at ten percent of one’s income. Additionally, the Senate voted against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s student loan bill, the …
“Money is your work in paper form,” my high school history teacher told my class way back in 1987. Then he pulled out his wallet and showed us a piece of green paper. “This ten dollar bill represents about 30 …
Today, 33 national organizations and 163 state and local organizations send a letter to six U.S. Senators on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee urging them to keep working on the Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act …
I guess I get to say I told you so. After reading hundreds of thousands of words about economic inequality written by the world’s greatest minds, I sense consensus is moving towards what this social worker had figured out five …
How would you grade the social work profession in fulfilling its mission? It is useful to step back periodically to do a little self-examination to measure the progress we are making in fulfilling our purpose and achieving our goals. The …
Social work leaders and delegations of students and faculty from 14 graduate and baccalaureate social work programs from across the state converged at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 4th expansion of New York’s Social Work Loan Forgiveness program. According to NYS Higher …
Since 2007, I have captured images of the most vulnerable among us, our nation’s homeless population. Not since last century’s Great Depression has there been so many of our citizens in a struggle simply to survive. This transcends homelessness and speaks to the inequality in …
In The Spotlight As the state of the economy and the issues surrounding gaps in income inequality continue to absorb the national spotlight, some may wonder what exactly any of the numbers that are thrown around in the media actually …
With great fanfare, President Obama personally unveiled the Volcker Rule this week. It’s not often that a President will take center stage for the passage of a departmental regulation but the Volcker Rule is a centerpiece to his Administration’s efforts …
This weekend, known feminist rabble-rouser Hanna Rosin published an article on Slate declaring that the gender pay gap we all fret about is, actually, not real. My husband sent me the link thinking I was going to lose my mind. …
