Earlier this month, former President Trump was asked a revealing question at the Economic Club of New York: What would he do about child care? In 1942, union organizer Kitty Ellickson wrote an influential essay on a term for a reality women are still living, the “double day” — doing the majority of care work while also working for pay …
All foster children deserve a chance at finding their forever families. Many Black children in foster care are placed with families of a different race who may not be adequately trained, educated or supported to handle the unique challenges Black children face. A new Kidsave-Gallup study found that 71% of Black adults agree that the foster care system could do …
It shouldn’t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them. A third conspicuous failure of our healthcare system, looming in the background every week for physicians like me, is hospital funding. These are only a few of the ways that the U.S. healthcare system’s failures now weigh on physicians. If a federal single-payer system …
Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Warren is the senior US senator from Massachusetts and a former Democratic candidate for President in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear how caregivers – including child care, home care and nursing home workers – are essential to achieving this vision. Child care workers like Rosa Carreño in California witnessed a system on the verge …
