Challenging the Income and Wealth Inequality in Social Work
Challenging the Income and Wealth Inequality in Social Work
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- Describe your professional goals and explain how having a Doctoral in Social Work will help you achieve them.
- Discuss how your past academic and professional experiences have helped shape your ability to: Bachelor of social work and Master of Social Work with 10 years of military and civilian clinical case management in child welfare.
- Demonstrate innovation and creativity in your work
- Communicate with key stakeholders
- Lead and manage teams
- Collaborate with communities and professional networks
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- What single social problem keeps you up at night? Social Justice for those living in poverty.
- Select a social problem you would like to solve through your professional career and describe this problem in behavioral terms. Financially insecurities
- Elaborate upon which behavior(s), and by whom, must change in order for this problem to be solved, and notthe solution itself.
- Contextualize your discussion around Reduce extreme economic inequality and build financial capability for all, which is one of the 12 Grand Challenge of Social Work.
Socioeconomics is a very important part of the social justice equation, especially with one in five children living in poverty and nearly half of all U.S. households considered financially insecure. Social worker professionals can help reduce extreme economic inequality and build financial capability for all, evaluating policy related to wages, tax benefits, homeownership, and education access and advocating for social policies that reduce economic hardship, encourage lifelong income generation, and address poverty’s debilitating effects.
