The case study of child care politics over the past five years offers lessons for how to build a movement around Universal Family Care.
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Posted inFamily Care
How to Finance Universal Family Care
Considering the options for building a new social-insurance program
Posted inFamily Care
Missed Opportunities, Partial Solutions
Why America doesn’t have a system of family care
Posted inFamily Care
Running on Empty
Small-business owners providing child care struggled to survive with low pay and long hours before the pandemic. Now they’re verging on collapse.
Posted inFamily Care
Care Workers Organizing for Dignity
Faced with low wages and uncertain financial futures, workers are raising their voices.
Posted inFamily Care
How the Pandemic Disrupted Care
Families have been forced into impossible decisions to ensure that their loved ones get the assistance they need.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Democrats Are Running on Universal Child Care—and Winning
Progressive candidates for Congress across America are energizing voters by addressing a deep crisis for families.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Will Federal Child Care Support Vanish Again?
The World War II precedent and today’s pandemic
Posted inWorking in America
In California, Child Care Providers Vote to Unionize
43,000 workers who care for the kids of state-subsidized poor families have gone union in the nation’s largest organizing victory in many years.
Posted inWorking in America
California Allows Child Care Workers to Unionize
Newly signed legislation gives bargaining rights to 40,000 workers—presaging the largest unionization drive in many years.
