THE CARE CRISIS Over at TPM Cafe, Ruth Rosen has a stirring post on the glaring absence of child care and family issues from the national agenda, and the total inadequacy of the currently family support net. Reminds me of something Jacob Hacker said in his book The Great Risk Shift: "U.S policy treats families almost entirely as a personal responsibility, not a social priority." He's right, and it's weird. If you want to dive into this a bit depper, Barack Obama's policy director Karen Kornbluh has spent the last couple of years thinking hard about a truly pro-family agenda, and her mini-manifesto in the latest issue of Democracy offers some powerful ideas, ranging from small tweaks to Social Security to a new social insurance program that combats the economic instability that buffets families.
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Ezra Klein
