Getting political attention for high workloads in Massachusetts

Massachusetts social workers are still campaigning over the inefficiencies and poor quality care resulting from high caseloads and inadequate resourcing of social work. they were able to give evidence of a lot of problems to a political audit panel. I don't hear a lot of this sort of evidence coming to political notice in other countries, or locally, but social services are under pressure everywhere.

Link to the Massachusetts press report

Indian Robin Hood says politicians are thieves too

Somewhat charmingly, an Indian jewel thief has claimed a political Robin Hood motive for his actions - here's the report from the Hyderabad Times:

"I am fed up with the way the system is functioning these days. Politicians are thieves who loot us for five years and I became a thief just for a night to show the world the growing inequality in the country"...If given a chance, I can serve the society better than any politician," said Kumar, who has four brothers and a widowed mother at home to feed from the paltry money he earns as a mason...

Kumar, the prime accused, walked into a local television channel's office late on Sunday and told the receptionist that he was the one who had carried out the heist. "My cousin Anand needs money to undergo a surgery. We tried to get help, but no one cared," he told the police later.