Reporter Call Out: Does your boss call, text or email at all hours? Would a 'right to disconnect' law solve the problem? If not, what would? DMs open.

Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done for Families and Workers? My latest piece for the Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/07/tru…

Some of team Better Life Lab at IWPR’s fantastic #careconference - what will it take for the US to value care & caregivers. Lots to learn. Lots to do.

Bonsai - a whole world

Sharing the Burden - Another good one from Aubrey Hirsch open.substack.com/pub/audacity/p…

What I was hoping: a meeting-free day to concentrate on work, write and get shit done. What is happening: the dryer decided to break & the kitchen sink started to leak…

Biden: raise the minimum raise - workers deserve decent wages and good lives and no one can do that on $7 bucks/hour. #SOTU Congress hasn’t raised the minimum wage since 2009. Tipped minimum wage is $2.19/hour. Sub minimum wage is as low as .25/hour

Biden: Imagine a future of affordable child care, paid leave, home care, family care. Yes, let’s imagine and make it real #SOTU

No child should go hungry in the US. Biden calls for Congress to restore the expanded Child Tax Credit #SOTU

Biden says Roe v Wade got it right. To GOP - “My God, what freedom else will you take away” challenges Congress to pass legislation for reproductive freedom - vows to pass it #SOTU

For tonight’s State of the Union address, we’re in white and wearing ‘Fighting for Reproductive Freedom’ pins.

Our message is clear: we won't stop fighting until all women can access the health care they need to control their own lives and futures.

We're watching the #SOTU2024 and hopeful to hear President Biden address key issues across care, work-family justice, and intersectional gender equity! You can follow along with us here.

According to new research, we now know that children under five years old are most likely to be threatened with eviction. The astronomical cost of child care is a likely reason why. Op-ed by Brigid Schulte and Yuliya Neyman Panfil 🇺🇦 cnn.com/2024/02/14/opi…

'The eviction filing rate for Black women with children in the home is nearly 30%, the study found, compared to about 6% of White women renters with children.' Critical reading from Brigid Schulte and Yuliya Neyman Panfil 🇺🇦 at New America on a groundbreaking new study: cnn.it/3wnMLlz

In col w Brigid Schulte and Better Life Lab I wrote about why sky high #childcare costs are making young kids the most vulnerable group for #evictions nationwide. Ultimately, #care and #Housing are two pieces of the family economic stability 🥧. Can't look at them in isolation.

Why are children ages 0-5 the most likely population to be evicted in the U.S? Could the lack of child care be the reason? My New America colleague Yuliya Neyman Panfil 🇺🇦 & I explore in our piece CNN Opinion cnn.com/2024/02/14/opi…

The true victims of the US eviction crisis - read more here from Brigid Schulte and Yuliya Neyman Panfil 🇺🇦 cnn.com/2024/02/14/opi…

'Are we all, 69 percent of the nation’s mothers, 'letting someone else raise our kids'?'

Haley Swenson of Better Life Lab at @newamerica asks hard questions in this new essay:

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American Progress 19thnews

DEI is not the reason why you presume Black people aren’t qualified. Racism is the reason. And a need to believe a Black person could not possibly do better than you. I know it and you know it, too.

New paper studying the impact of 137 Return to Office mandates on S&P500 firms from 2020-2023. Three key results:

1) RTO mandates are more likely in firms with poor recent stock performance, and in those with powerful male CEOs.

2) Glassdoor data finds RTO mandates…