Current：Home > MarketsWanted: Social workers -Wealth Evolution Experts
Wanted: Social workers
View
Date：2025-04-16 18:53:18
U.S. job growth just surged way past expectations. But one area of employment continues to need more hands on deck: social workers. The evolving occupation is getting new attention from schools all the way up to corporations. Today, we try to understand where this need is coming from and whether it can actually be met.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (4)
Related
- Man can't find second winning lottery ticket, sues over $394 million jackpot, lawsuit says
- ParkMobile $32.8 million settlement: How to join class
- KISS OF LIFE reflects on sold
- Alex Jones keeps Infowars for now after judge rejects The Onion’s winning auction bid
- Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
- GM to retreat from robotaxis and stop funding its Cruise autonomous vehicle unit
- Bill Belichick's salary at North Carolina: School releases football coach's contract details
- China's new tactic against Taiwan: drills 'that dare not speak their name'
- Former Danish minister for Greenland discusses Trump's push to acquire island
- KISS OF LIFE reflects on sold
Ranking
- House passes bill to add 66 new federal judgeships, but prospects murky after Biden veto threat
- See Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's Twins Monroe and Moroccan Gift Her Flowers Onstage
- Dick Van Dyke credits neighbors with saving his life and home during Malibu fire
- 'Vanderpump Rules' star DJ James Kennedy arrested on domestic violence charges
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- US inflation likely edged up last month, though not enough to deter another Fed rate cut
- Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone bring chaotic winter weather to East Coast
- Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single
Recommendation
The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
US weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise
This house from 'Home Alone' is for sale. No, not that one.
Dick Van Dyke credits neighbors with saving his life and home during Malibu fire
Jorge Ramos reveals his final day with 'Noticiero Univision': 'It's been quite a ride'
Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death and fled to Eastern Europe is in custody, online records show
A Malibu wildfire prompts evacuation orders and warnings for 20,000, including Dick Van Dyke, Cher
California judges say they’re underpaid, and their new lawsuit could cost taxpayers millions