Fascinating care work story here. Lately been thinking a lot about how some of the most necessary & growing jobs (all in care; elder/home care, nursing) are some of the lowest paid, but also some of the LEAST replaceable by AI. We quite literally must value these workers more. shorturl.at/WR16r
Excited to see our CEO, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social , get to meet with @mayor.nyc.gov - two people so committed to the nitty gritty work of HOW government can truly deliver for working people. #RooseveltSociety
So appreciate seeing this...Paid leave and universal childcare should be much more connected in our policy discussions.
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My latest brief for Roosevelt Institute: Let's remember that childcare is a labor issue- not only for working parents, but childcare workers who do this work for poverty wages. Collective bargaining and labor power can help us win what we all need on childcare: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Incredibly useful and deeply disheartening breakdown of the various ways this administration has hurt childcare workers. Part of any childcare policy plan going forward must address the harm done to this workforce in recent years, on TOP of decades of them being so undervalued.
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Childcare has long been left out of convos on affordability partially because it's an issue that impacts the short-and-long term economic security of WOMEN in particular. Meanwhile, childcare costs more than housing in most of the country. Exciting to see it included in these convos more & more.
As promised, today @rooseveltinstitute.org releases a blog post previewing our topline findings from @jacklandry.bsky.social and my upcoming paper analyzing the impacts and costs of the SSI Restoration act of 2024!
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This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.
What aging adults need is a public insurance system that covers long-term care, home & community based services, & a well-paid care workforce. It's quite literally like this admin considers a policy that would actually benefit people, and goes, "ok cool, let's do the exact opposite of that."
This is not only callous, but an insanely illogical thing to do in the face of our rapidly aging population...Poverty wages have already created a massive elder care workforce shortage. Making that worse + the Medicaid cuts will be disastrous for aging adults and their families. shorturl.at/ev6C3
We live in a country that is currently starving and cutting programs and services for young children to grow, learn, and thrive, & instead is choosing to fund a secret police to literally terrorize young children and their families. Words can't describe the shame we should feel.
Spoke to @newrepublic.com re: childcare, & you'll hear me say this again, until we get a childcare system that works for families AND workers:
“In order to expand a childcare system to be even close to universal, you have to improve pay and benefits for the workforce,” Bilik said. shorturl.at/GT1Tn
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'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
Survey of parents: 1 in 5 said they had to cut back on childcare bc of cost. Important to note what this means in practice: forgone wages, sometimes lost jobs, when families's budgets are already so precarious and close to the brink. & the federal freeze will only make this worse.
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Minnesota Students Are Living in Perilous Times, Two Teachers Explain (Opinion): The federal government is committing the "greatest constancy of deliberate community harm."
The child care system is under attack. Threatening funding cuts undermines program integrity & risks care for children. And empowering “citizen journalists” to do the work of gov’t investigators endangers early educators & children.
S/o @kcpeeks.bsky.social
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Thinking about this a lot this week, re:....everything....
Looking forward to hearing more details about the childcare plan in NY, (esp around workforce compensation!). But for now, leaning into hope. Proud to live in a state that shows us that in these dark times, the government CAN still do what it's truly here to do: work for the people.
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
Not coincidentally, the states losing federal money are among the few that guarantee families more than the most inhumane level of cash assistance.
I wrote in July about the sorry state of children & family policy in the US. Even then it was hard to imagine things getting worse for poor children, but the cruelty just keeps escalating.
Don't let anyone tell you these lawmakers are "pro-family".
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This is a lot like "defund Planned Parenthood." There we saw that when a provider closes there isn't someone else waiting in the wings to swoop up and provide the care. And "refunding" doesn't bring orgs back to life - staff have moved on, leases are lost, etc.
The impacts of this admin recklessly shutting off all childcare funding to a state are grave. Our childcare system is struggling from an EXISTING supply crisis - anything that closes programs will have ripple effects on children, care workers, folks' ability to work, & the economy for years to come.
Given the #AffordabilityCrisis, it’s no surprise that @lbilik.bsky.social’s feature on universal childcare in @usatoday.com made our #Bestof2025.
Check out our blog on New Mexico’s investment to support families and subsidize childcare.
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We all know that the affordability crisis is not a "con". The real "cons" as we see them come from the way US policies privilege corporations and the ultra-rich over regular people. Check out our thoughts 🧵:
