Care Conference 2024: Crafting Solutions—Unblocking Progress toward Gender and Racial Economic Equity
This is the sixth and final blog in a [...]
Care Conference 2024: How to Tackle the Undervaluation of Care Work in the Human Service Sector
This is the fifth blog in a series detailing the [...]
Care Conference 2024: Fostering Job Quality for Immigrant Care Workers
This is the fourth blog in a series detailing the [...]
Care Conference 2024: The Care Infrastructure—Measuring Gaps and Identifying Resources for Closing Them
This is the third blog in a series detailing the [...]
Care Conference 2024: What We Need to Think About as the Population Is Aging and Care Needs Are Rising
This is the second blog in a series detailing the [...]
Care Conference 2024: Economic Policies for Gender & Racial Equity—Earnings, Care, and Public Revenue
This is the first blog in a series detailing the [...]
IWPR Releases New Poll Detailing the Concerns of Caregivers and Women in the Workforce
Care is the cornerstone of economic activity, yet it [...]
Care Conference 2024!
Care is the cornerstone of economic activity, yet it remains [...]
Not Just 9 to 5: Expanding Child Care Options for Parents Working Nontraditional Hours
In the United States, a whopping 43 percent of children have a parent who works “nontraditional hours,” or during the early mornings, nights, or weekends. And yet just 8 percent of child care centers offer care before 7am or after 6pm. While families of all types require care during nontraditional hours, Black and Latinx workers and low-income workers are disproportionately more likely to work during nontraditional hours.
Care Workers Join Older Adult and Disability Advocates to Call for Vital Reforms
Last week, disability rights advocates were joined by caregiving professionals and policymakers at a rally in Washington, DC, to call for much-needed investment in the care infrastructure. Rally participants delivered the call to invest in care—with a focus on home and community-based services and living wages for direct care workers—at an important moment, as Congress continues to debate legislature that would provide critical funding like the Build Back Better Act and its reincarnations.
