The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Dear Editor:
Why do Congress and the American people hate the poor?
Families in trouble need expert help. Of the 450,000 social workers in the United States only five percent have a master's degree. Physicians are require to have a license to lance a boil. Why aren't social workers required to have adequate training in order to assist families in trouble?
As a social worker with a master's degree from Smith College School of Social Work, I found that eighty percent of my clients on Welfare in St. Louis needed medical care. Many of them had been injured on the job.
A colleague in the Department of Welfare in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1940s, Barbara Mikulski, organized a family crisis center and demonstrated how families could be helped. She presented a bill in congress after she became a Senator to provide family crisis centers in each county in the United States. Her bill is gathering dust in Congress.
Why doesn't our country take steps to prevent family breakdown?
Sincerely Yours,
Lillian M. Snyder, DSW
Professor Emeritus
Western Ill. University