Nancy Folbre
Are You Suffering from Low T?
Low Total Compensation Syndrome. It’s not you. It’s the economy—a silent epidemic affecting 51% of the population.
We Need a Care Package!
We’ve built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
The Expendables
What ancient Rome teaches us about human value in the age of AI.
War Dollars, Care Dollars (and No Sense)
What are the care costs of a senseless war?
The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care
What happened to the dream of a dual-earner/dual carer household?
Taxing the Top
As the distribution of both wealth and income has become unequal, political efforts to tax the top to finance investment in public goods like childcare have gained traction.
The Motherhood Gamble
While many mothers will enjoy adequate support from a partner, a considerable number are likely to pay a disproportionate share of the costs of raising children, putting their families at risk of poverty.
Reproductive Justice and Economics
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”
The private cost of raising children in the United States is at least twice as high as recent estimates suggest.
More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?
Pronatalists show remarkably little concern for the well-being of children already born—or their parents.
Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling
A close look at the games Republicans played with their Big Bad Cuts to Medicaid.
Medicaid Football
Putting Congressional debate over health insurance into context.