Joblessness Vs Social Work

Since the early 2000’s the unemployment rates of the United States have been constantly changing. For most of this time unemployment rates were increasing at a quick pace as the country was dealing with internal financial issues of its own. When people are out of work the rates of depression and crime seem to skyrocket. This is due to the lack of funds coming into a home which result in some less than admirable acts being committed. There are many causes of unemployment and many effects that unemployment can have on not only our economy, but our personal lives as well.

Overall Exchange Rates change every day and depending on how it changes can affect inbound and domestic tourism.

Beginning with unemployment in the 2007-2009 recession, U.S. unemployment rates peaked at 10% as well as held 41 consecutive months at rates higher than eight percent (Lazear 1). The U.S. economy plummeted during this time; many attributed the shift to a large decrease in the number of employed workers. To be able to better understand the unemployment issue, we must first examine the form of unemployment faced by the U.S. economy. Many believe that the changes faced by the U.S. labor market

An increase in the unemployment rate means that more individuals do not have an income, thus meaning many households suffer reduced disposable funds. This causes a decrease in the level of aggregate demand within the economy and therefore reduces economic growth. This in turn causes a slower circular flow of income, meaning that households may be forced into or past poverty, as a result of the lowered income generated, reducing the living standards and quality of life. The downturn experienced by the economy can also offset many individuals seeing them not wanting to return back to the workforce due to the lack of jobs available, making them long-term unemployed rather than cyclically unemployed, or if the firm initially was promoting structural change, structurally unemployed. Combined with poverty, the aspect of unemployment can lead to other severe mental health issues and illness reaching extremes.

My Placement is with a charity called Home Start they offer support and friendship to young families living in the South side of Glasgow that are experiencing difficulties in their home life. The initial referral of a family can come from a number of places families can self-refer or it can be by a health professional, nurse, health visitor, social worker or doctor that has spent time with them and feels they would benefit from some additional support that isn’t currently being offered to them.

As the economy and technology in today have been developed constantly, the system of job markets has increased and diversified in various ways. However, even though the jobs are subdivided more and more, many people still hardly find the jobs which are perfectly fitted to (fitted to? Or fitted with?) each individual and ‘unemployment’ situations are occurred in many different circumstances. Although countless jobs and people who have jobs exist in modern society, most workers experience frequent unemployment at some point or between jobs during their working lives. According to Hudson (2002), the unemployment rate in the United States has stayed at relatively high levels during much of the period since the end of the Second World War. In this essay, the effects of a jobless situation on individuals which

On 2011 February 16, the Welfare Reform Bill was introduced to Parliament. The purpose of this bill was to increase benefits and tax credits to make the system fairer and less complex for users (DWP 2012). In 2008/2009, the recession created increased demand for mental health services, with those with moderate problems being the hardest hit (Dunning 2011). This was the driving force behind initiatives to allow those who have a mental illness but who could work, the ability to do so. The Welfare Reform Bill came about as a result of budget cuts that forced many hospitals to turn away mentally ill patients; forcing them back out into the community with few supports (Lister and Bowers 2011). The Universal Credit System proposed under this bill promises to create more incentives for persons on welfare to return to work. Prior to introduction of the bill, those with mental illness faced two primary challenges in returning to work. These challenges included poor incentives to return to work and a system that is too complex for the average user to navigate (DWP 2012). This research explores the challenges that those with a mental illness face in returning to work after a time on Welfare.

I am interested in the Social Worker position with the New Hope Rehab facility in Billings, MT. By night, I am a 911-Dispatcher for the City of Billings, a position I have excelled in for the past 18 years. By day, I have been fulfilling the remaining requisites of my master’s degree in social work and gaining medical social work experience as an intern with the care management department at St. Vincent Healthcare. While I have enjoyed my time at the Billings Communication Center, I will be an MSW upon graduation on May 12, 2018 and tremendously eager to start a new career with new opportunities to grow.

In the US, with a population of 320 million and a working wealth creating population of around 120 million, with 47 million on food stamps (an estimated increase of 27% since 2008), the unofficial estimated unemployment figure is 23 - 26%. The variation lies between including people as unemployed and ignoring those, ‘not in the labour force’, which is where the skewed figure of 4.7% comes from. Using the same semantics, Britain changed the term unemployed to job seekers in 1996, lowered unemployment at a stroke, yet left a nation of millions seeking work and by the same method, produced an amazingly near equal 4.9% of officially unemployed as America.

In our text, Introduction to social work and social welfare, Zastrow defines a variety of ways to reduce crime and delinquency. He categorizes these strategies in three topics; Increasing or decreasing sentences, reforming the correctional system, and preventing crime in the first place (pg. 321). I believe that each of these are crucial in limiting crime but they are not always realistic. Some examples of improving increased/decreased sentencing includes, instituting swift and certain punishment, imposing harsher sentencing, separating repeat offenders from society, getting tougher on white-collar crimes, creating uniform sentences, decriminalizing public offenses, and imposing stricter gun control. I agree that harsher punishments reduce crime in the idea that if a criminal is in prison/jail they cannot commit crime in the communities, but the reality is that sending and holding someone to prison is expensive. Reforming the correctional system can be used inane attempt to prevent a first time criminal to steer away from further crime, or give someone the opportunity to see/live a better life/future. I think this is an excellent way to stop criminals from breaking the law. Just like the textbook describes, if a teen runs aways from home, and

B. To Nielsen Capitalism needs private productive property to work while socialism works to abolish private ownership of production. Socialism is more free in the sense that is requires public ownership and control of the means of production. Under capitalism there is private property rights. Under this people who own the property get to choose what is done to the property but in socialism citizens at large get to chose what happens to the property. (Social Ethics) In socialism there is no domain that is not subject to political determination. Socialism is not a state of ownership though. (Social Ethics) At the very least its popular sovereignty. The property that is owned by the government is productive property not private personal property.

The two members of the children’s workforce I will be explaining are a health visitor and a social worker.

Consequences regarding the international businesses and the flow of trade and investment among the three countries are given below as benefits and drawbacks of holding fixed exchange rate system-

Unemployment has always been something that Americans have worried about since the great depression in which one in every four people was unemployed. High unemployment has an impact on every one even those whom are still currently employed. For example if the unemployment rate is particular high then even those with jobs get worried. Unemployment is also separated in to distinct categories base on which group is the focus of the study. The categories can be by race, age or location, for example the unemployment rate of those between the age of sixty and sixty-five could be compared those between the ages of thirty and thirty-five. These categories allow economist to see which groups are the best and which groups are worst off. One group

Three thousand years ago, people recognized that they had a moral obligation to help those in need. Looking back on the history of social work, there have been many definitions of the field, but it is ever-changing and expanding to include the things that happen in society every day. The 1800’s were a defining period of time for social welfare and the field of social work was born. For the time, there was such progressive acts stemming from many factors affecting the United States including a population increase, both here in the U.S. and in terms of immigration. The textbook lists a whole page of the programs and organizations enacted in the 1800’s, and among them were the child labor laws that passed in 1836 in Boston, the first look into services provided to “insane people” in 1841 (Berg-Weger, 26), the first mental asylum opened in Trenton, New Jersey in 1845, and, when “mentally deficient” (Berg-Weger, 26) people were able to obtain public education in Providence Rhode Island in 1896. Social work has gone from being strictly volunteer work to being an accredited, multidimensional field. Today, we still have some of those same programs, and we have added others, and use them as stepping stones because social work is ever-changing to accommodate all important issues and information of an ever-changing population. We are now working to assist everyone from older adults, to children, to military veterans. All of this progress wouldn’t have been possible without the pioneers