Care Talk

Having Children and Saving the World

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 15 September, 2024

Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.

Would Care Be a Gift? 

Post Date: 26 August, 2024

Care as a gift places us all as caretakers *and* caregivers, in a reciprocity dynamic in which our autonomy is directly connected to the moments in which we were not and will not be autonomous. In this sense, care cannot be commodified nor mediated by the market as a mere product of capitalism.

Understanding the  Care Economy

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 5 August, 2024

Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.

Dreaming Big

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 5 August, 2024

A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.

Child Care Manifesto

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 31 May, 2024

What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?

The Value of Valuation

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 31 May, 2024

Assigning a market value to non-market work can be risky, but it calls attention to the economic contributions of unpaid care.

Automatic Healthcare? 

Posted By: Shelley Park
Post Date: 20 April, 2024

Regulations on “ethical” AI may fail to address larger concerns about the automation of care.

On the Front Lines: The Work of Nurse Practitioners in US Healthcare

Posted By: LaTonya Trotter
Post Date: 20 April, 2024

The nursing profession has become one of many privatized responses to the shrinking of the US welfare state.

The New Pronatalism: Politics / Economics / Fertility / Care

Posted By: Elizabeth Gregory
Post Date: 4 April, 2024

Restrictive policies around contraception and sexuality aim to increase the number of unplanned pregnancies, which will expand the near-term low-wage workforce of desperate parents.

Capital for the Kids 

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 4 April, 2024

A quick look at small moves toward a guaranteed basic income for kids in the U.S. and Canada.

Demanda por el reconocimiento del cuidado como Derecho Humano

Posted By: Gabriela Marzonetto
Post Date: 9 March, 2024

La sociedad civil se pronuncia sobre la petición del gobierno argentino a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, que escuchará los argumentos del caso esta semana en el tribunal de San José, Costa Rica.

Resisting Gilead

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 9 March, 2024

The New-York Historical Society hosts an all-star lineup to discuss histories and possible futures of care.