Social Workers in Politics

Social Workers are ideally equipped to deal with the problems of a nation. I cannot think of any educational underpinning better suited to a career in government and politics than social work. Whether you see the use of a background and training in social work as a helpful thing in the field of politics may well depend on how you see politics. The definition of politics that I understand holds that politics is merely the way we decide who gets what, when they get it, and how much they can expect. In essence, politics is a means through which resources in society are divided. There are few who know better about the disbursement of resources than social workers. We see the effects that the adequate and inadequate disbursement of resources has on the lives, health, and well-being of people every day.