Care Talk

Care is Climate Infrastructure: Report from COP30

Post Date: 25 November, 2025

COP30 in Belém showed that there is no possible climate justice without placing care at the center of global solutions and investments.

Taxing the Top

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 21 October, 2025

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

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 14 October, 2025

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.

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 18 September, 2025

The private cost of raising children in the United States is at least twice as high as recent estimates suggest.

The First 1,000 Days of Life Are the Real National Security

Posted By: Tibeb Asfaw
Post Date: 18 September, 2025

What if early childhood care is the key to preventing violent conflicts?

The Care Tide:  Laying the Foundations for Transformative Policies in Latin America

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 27 August, 2025

A hard-fought campaign to recognize care as a human right has scored some important wins this month.

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns? 

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 27 August, 2025

Pronatalists show remarkably little concern for the well-being of children already born—or their parents.

Learning from Migrant Care Workers About Transformative Ethics

Posted By: Lynn Yu Ling Ng
Post Date: 21 July, 2025

The intersection of eldercare and migration reveals critical blind spots in dominant understandings of care ethics and practice.

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 21 July, 2025

A close look at the games Republicans played with their Big Bad Cuts to Medicaid.

Medicaid Football

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 16 June, 2025

Putting Congressional debate over health insurance into context.

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 16 June, 2025

Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.

Raising the Bar: Public Employment and Paid Family Leave in North Carolina

Posted By: Nora Salitan
Post Date: 18 March, 2025

Advocates of paid family and medical leave try a novel approach. Research into efforts to move paid leave forward at the municipality level reveals surprising results.