Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler’s care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats’ spending bill tries to shrink the gap.

It’s past time to subsidize child care in America

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…

A Labor Department survey shows the extent to which working parents, particularly women, have multitasked.

Don’t worry if you haven’t grown as a person during the pandemic.

Increased public investment in child care is needed to help families access high-quality, affordable child care that meets their needs.

"The immense inequality on who is providing unpaid care is staggering," said the analysis's author.

More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost and effort of caring for children and older family members during the pandemic. In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we’ll hear why the United States is the only wealthy nation not to offer comprehensive support to parents, why caregiving is a critical part of American infrastructure, and what’s at stake if parents and caregivers are forgotten.

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll. The pressures that mothers of young children (defined throughout as having a child under the age of 13 in the household) have faced over the course of the CO…

Our struggle to value caregiving has capitalist roots, but changing economic policy starts with dismantling the idea of caregiving as the altruistic woman’…

As quickly as those gains were erased, it could take much, much longer for them to return.