State getting sued for nixing the right to work for 2 social workers

The state of Texas, like the rest of America, is confronted now with an exploding mental health and substance abuse crisis, with what has been called a “dire shortage” of professional social workers to help people cope.

So it banned two workers, grandmothers with masters degrees, from the industry, because they’d been involved in assault cases years ago when they both were fighting substance abuse problems.

And the state is getting sued over its restrictions.

It is the Institute...