Latinas Exiting the Workforce
From March 2020 to March 2021, the number of Latinas in the workforce dropped by 2.74%, the biggest drop of any demographic group.
‘No Time to Be a Child’
During the pandemic, teenage girls took on more caregiving at home, extra shifts at work and the burden of organizing racial justice protests. In many instances, it upended their lives.
Who Wants To Return To The Office? | FiveThirtyEight
If you started working from home in the last 16 months, you’re in good company. Over 100 million Americans transitioned from in-person to remote work during the…
Care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid: Estimating fair and equitable wages in the care sectors | Economic Policy Institute
The Biden administration has made large investments in care work—both child care and elder care—key planks in its American Jobs Plan (AJP) and American Families Plan (AFP). These investments would be transformative, and a greater public role in providing this care work can make the U.S. economy fairer and more efficient. The administration has also…
Spotify – Manisha Thakor: Beware of 'Junk Personal Finance' - The Long View | Podcast on Spotify
Lockdown was not a sabbatical
Don’t worry if you haven’t grown as a person during the pandemic.
Decades of economic progress women made catching up to men evaporated in just one year
As quickly as those gains were erased, it could take much, much longer for them to return.