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The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.
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The Underestimated Cost of Parenting

The private cost of raising children in the United States is at least twice as high as recent estimates suggest.
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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
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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.
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More Babies or Better Care for Newborns? or, as Portside put it in a reprint, “The Cost of Kids is Too Damn High.”

Also at Left Hook Economics
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The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Also at Care Talk
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