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Elder Care
June 17, 2021
Monica Potts
Why Don’t We Pay Family Caregivers What They’re Owed?
Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.
April 28, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
On Biden’s American Families Plan and Resisting the Conservative Politics of Care
The president’s forthcoming proposal on care could both meaningfully address the current crisis and open up space for more radical demands about work and family life.
May 26, 2020
Libby Watson
The Intolerable Cruelty of Our Eldercare System
Long before they were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, our nursing homes were a place of heartlessness, abuse, and neglect.
March 26, 2020
J.C. Pan
America’s Eldercare System Is a Tinderbox
A pandemic and rising demand expose the vulnerabilities of a system that runs on poverty wages.
March 25, 2020
Sarah Baird
The Rural Coronavirus Crisis to Come
While cities like New York are the epicenter of the epidemic, smaller communities with scant resources are bracing for impact.
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