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Home Care Workers
November 18, 2021
Cora Currier
Shuttered Day Cares and Scrambling Families: Unpacking the Childcare Crisis
A TNR Live discussion on how the pandemic brought the dire state of care work to the fore—and what we can do about it
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 22, 2021
Magazine
Monica Potts
The Crisis in Home Care
The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?
November 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
,
Nick Martin
,
Katie McDonough
,
J.C. Pan
The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.
September 23, 2020
Luis Feliz Leon
Immigrant Street Vendors Are Feeding Others to Feed Themselves During the Pandemic
In a Queens plaza, food vendors talk about survival in a crisis, state neglect, and the meaning of community care.
May 7, 2020
Magazine
Liza Featherstone
The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency
How the coronavirus exposes a crisis of care work
July 16, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Lila Savage’s
Say Say Say
Is a Breakthrough in Women’s Fiction
A debut novel explores self-care through the mind of a caregiver.
March 11, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Wall Street's Yearly Bonuses Could Double the Pay for All of America's Minimum Wage Workers
January 14, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Obama Wants Home Care Workers to Get Minimum Wage, But a Federal Judge Is Standing in the Way
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