Nancy Folbre
The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid
Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.
The Immigrants’ Goodbye
New restrictions on legal immigration, combined with rapid deportation of the undocumented, will likely worsen already painful shortfalls of paid health care, elder care, and child care services in the U.S.
Death by Austerity
Some kinds of efficiency are about making money. Other kinds are about saving lives and developing human capabilities.
The Rise of Anti-Care
Some post-U.S. election advice: keep the faith and fight the backlash.
Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk
Nancy Folbre will give a seminar on her manuscript-in-progress “Accounting for Care,” as well as public talk, entitled “Valuing Care: Time, Money, and Capabilities.” Both events will be in person at the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
Understanding the Care Economy
Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.
The Value of Valuation
Assigning a market value to non-market work can be risky, but it calls attention to the economic contributions of unpaid care.
Capital for the Kids
A quick look at small moves toward a guaranteed basic income for kids in the U.S. and Canada.
Little Kids vs. Big Business
Current U.S. Congressional efforts to expand the Child Tax Credit offer telling insights into the partisan divide.
Taxing the Stork
New empirical research reveals why European family support policies, while far more generous than those of the U.S., are not as “pro-parent” as they claim to be
The U.S. Child Care Crunch
Stripped of support provided during the pandemic, the child-care industry is cracking up