Blog Posts
I started a blog called Care Talk in 2008, then got the opportunity to write a weekly blog post for the New York Times Economix Blog from 2009-2014. I resumed posting on my own intermittently until August 2023, when Care Talk found a home at the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project. Thankfully, this project archived the early posts that I had self-published. I am now writing regular posts, published on both Care Talk and Left Hook Economics.I try to draw the illustrations for them, when I can…
I will be adding links here for recent posts (starting in July 2025).
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.
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.
Also at Left Hook Economics here.
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.
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.
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 here.
The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid
Also at Care Talk here.
Care Think 