by Charles E Lewis Jr | Aug 25, 2022
As economic inequality grows unabated in the United States, policymakers are reaching for solutions to ensure the future of children born into low-income households. This is a quest that Brown School professor Michael Sherraden has been at for decades with notable...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jul 22, 2022
When I received the invite to attend Monday evening’s Capitol Hill dinner celebrating progress on legislation supporting the needs of foster care youth, I was a bit surprised by the nature of the bill. Of all the needs of foster care youth, particularly those who are...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jul 7, 2022
The United States economy is teetering on the brink these days, as are most of the world’s economies. Many are predicting dire days ahead. Stock market watchers such as British investor Jeremy Grantham believes bubbles created by the longest bull market in...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jun 29, 2022
One of most rewarding aspects of the work we do at CRISP is encountering so many gifted social workers in all parts of the country who are eager to become change agents and difference makers by working in the policy and political arenas. Many are young and in the...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Apr 21, 2022
The Social Work Democracy Project, officially launched last month during CRISP’s Social Work Day on the Hill event, is pleased to welcome Marla Blunt-Carter to its Board of Directors. An Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers School of Social Work, to...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Apr 13, 2022
I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years. My last visit to the Hill was CRISP’s Social Work Day on the Hill reception in the Rayburn Building in March 2020. We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Mar 28, 2022
The future belongs to the young and I am encouraged by the incredibly gifted young people who are joining the social work profession these days. Our 2022 Student Advocacy Day was a testament to growing activism among young people generally and the passion within our...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jan 22, 2022
Those who seem hellbent on following Trump and Republican downs the path to authoritarianism may not be thinking about what life might be under a Trump monarchy. The liberties and freedoms that these folks cling to so zealously could easily vanish. Once in power,...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jan 19, 2022
As a social worker I implore you to reconsider your staunch opposition to amending the current Senate practice of requiring a 60-vote threshold to allow a motion to end debate in the United States Senate and allow a vote on the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Sep 22, 2021
Unlike Ayn Rand who believed the world would end when she died, many of us—particularly those who devote our lives to social work—would like to live our lives knowing we are contributing something that will leave the world in a bit better shape that it was when we...
