Caregiving and Families
Recognizing the invaluable contribution of unpaid care work, we strive to create policies that support and uplift caregivers by analyzing the need for accessible and high-quality child care, elder care, paid sick and family leave, flexible work schedules, and cash transfers for mothers and families.
Child care costs could be a major issue in the presidential campaign
By: Jasmine Garsd Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, announced a plan to invest $775 billion over 10 years in child care and elder care. In 2017, under the Trump administration, the child care tax credit was doubled to as much as $2,000 per [...]
America’s child care problem is an economic problem
“Families are not okay,” one expert says. It’s making the economic crisis way worse. By: Anna North Add to that parents needing and looking for jobs: More than 11 percent of women are unemployed right now The difficulty of finding child care is already causing parents [...]
I felt like I had to go part-time when my kids were young. This shouldn’t be the norm.
Mothers engage in 300 more hours of paid work per year than they did 40 years ago By: C. Nicole Mason My email read as follows: Dear Mr. C, My apologies for Charli and Parker not turning in their assignments for the week. We’re super [...]
‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care
By BRACEY HARRIS For all the talk of getting America back to work, the reality remains the same: Many working parents won’t come back if they don’t have somewhere safe for their kids. Nearly 200,000 Mississippians with children between the ages of 6 to 12 are [...]
