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Journalist @voxdotcom, covering housing, family policy, homelessness, politics. writing CAPABLE with @penguinrandom, a book about agency and social change
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Universal child care in NYC won't be easy. But it's possible, practical, and could give the United States a desperately-needed blueprint I wrote for @nytopinion about what @ZohranKMamdani will need to get right
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dear lord, finally. Europe, Asia, and Australia have used this for 20+ years.
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Update: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a US immigration detention facility shortly before 5pm today and headed home to Maryland, his lawyer confirmed, after a federal judge ruled this morning that the Trump administration lacked valid legal grounds to keep him in custody
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“Universal child care can and should be as fundamental to a city’s infrastructure as transit or housing, as essential for attracting workers and residents as any investment a mayor can make.”
nytimes.com
If he learns the right lessons, the mayor-elect could pull off something remarkable.
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A great piece on universal childcare from @rcobooth. This point is particularly important—an older neighbor cared for me and my sisters in her home—and so many families rely on similar arrangements. https://t.co/SFrMW9cBSi
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Mamdani in Chelsea today, says he met with business leaders this morning to discuss universal childcare. Adds Hochul is committed to vision.
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"For decades, the U.S. has told families that child care is their burden to navigate. Mr. Mamdani made a bet that New Yorkers were ready for a different answer. If he can deliver, he’ll give the rest of the country a much-needed blueprint to follow, too"
nytimes.com
If he learns the right lessons, the mayor-elect could pull off something remarkable.
"Well, I'm not yet the mayor, but I am hard at work preparing this," Mamdani tells reporters when pressed on why he can't share details about his universal childcare plan, such as how many new daycares would need to be opened.
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Check out this spot-on @newyorktimes op-ed from @rcobooth on the incoming mayor’s plans for #UniversalChildCare in #NYC as an opportunity to envision universal child care across the US. Most exciting: the column recognizes the absolutely critical role of #FamilyChildCare.
Universal child care in NYC won't be easy. But it's possible, practical, and could give the United States a desperately-needed blueprint I wrote for @nytopinion about what @ZohranKMamdani will need to get right
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Universal child care can include supporting parents who want to stay home, and Zohran + his team seem to get this. Expanding paid leave is a big part of how you get there; in most wealthy countries the two are already treated as part of the same system https://t.co/fitjMKbgh5
@rcobooth @nytopinion @ZohranKMamdani I really struggle with "universal childcare" as a real solution. Few parents want to send their 7 week old to daycare. Most don't want to send their 1 year old. Expand unemployment to allow new moms or dads to collect up to $860/week. Let them do it for 1 year and guarantee
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I wrote for @nytimes about the massive potential of @ZohranKMamdani's universal child care vision, and the real policy pitfalls to watch out for https://t.co/FehLZDjctS
nytimes.com
If he learns the right lessons, the mayor-elect could pull off something remarkable.
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Chris Herbst and @Erdal_Tekin_ find the increase in ICE arrests since Trump took office to be associated with 39,000 fewer foreign-born child care workers and 77,000 fewer U.S.-born working mothers (as of July) https://t.co/mTMyALTYru
newamerica.org
The surge in ICE arrests erodes the child care workforce and pulls mothers of young children out of the labor market.
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the really dark way they talk about "meeting customer needs"
The Washington Post is also launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
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Similar mechanisms in this insightful essay from Elizabeth Ananat on the correlated decline in marriage rates NBER link in reply
A new study on 40+ European countries found women increasingly want men to share child care and housework equally—but men's attitudes have barely budged. In countries where this gap was widest, both birth rates and female employment were lower. "This was definitely not
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🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me:
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Are you on Trump's naughty list?
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@PTBwrites and being in those kinds of relationships but not helping at home also decreases likliehood of kids More housework≠more children, but a *lack* of gender equality does seem to make the birth rate fall even faster.
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most women do not live anymore in a world where they need to settle for selfish/demeaning partners to survive. the "reservation wage" of entering a relationship, as @PTBwrites puts it, has gone up. & not entering those types of partnerships decreases chance of having kids
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