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 will be adding links here for recent posts (starting July 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.
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”
Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.
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 