Social Worker's Death Raises Questions

Yet another result of the warped priorities of our government which is happy to use the bogus war on terror to lavish billions and billions of dollars a year on Lockheed Martin and more billions on Halliburton and other billions on Bechtel etc., while starving the country of (its own tax) money for social services, health care, education.

Nationwide, social workers are being placed in dangerous situations because of a lack of resources, according to the National Association of Social Workers in Washington, D.C. The association released a report earlier this year that found social workers have fewer support systems in place to protect them, said spokeswoman Allison Nadelhaft.

"Their caseloads are very high. So with diminished resources, their jobs become that much more dangerous," she said.

The association does not compile data on the number of social workers killed. But 44 percent of nearly 100,000 social workers questioned for the report had been the target of some form of violence, Nadelhaft said.