Joking About Low Social Worker Pay
While perusing the internet for social work news, I found an old video of a Vice President Joe Biden speech. In this speech, where he addresses an Urban League conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Biden jokes that he wishes he had a “Republican kid to go out and make money.” This is so he could get a "window view" when placed in a nursing home. Biden then states, "But my daughter’s a social worker.. Graduate school at Penn and runs an at
risk program — at risk youth program — for kids getting out of prison
and young men getting out of prison.”
You can watch the video here: Joe Biden: I wish I had a ‘Republican kid to go out and make money’
When I first entered graduate school, my classmates and professors frequently joked about how we were entering a field where we would make no money. In one lecture, my a professor joked that we ever wanted an Escalade and a house in a gated community, social work was the wrong field. As years passed, I've lost count of the number…
You can watch the video here: Joe Biden: I wish I had a ‘Republican kid to go out and make money’
When I first entered graduate school, my classmates and professors frequently joked about how we were entering a field where we would make no money. In one lecture, my a professor joked that we ever wanted an Escalade and a house in a gated community, social work was the wrong field. As years passed, I've lost count of the number…