Everyone interested in gender and macroeconomics should check out this conference celebrating the research of Nilüfer Çağatay economics.utah.edu/nilufer_cagata…

Maria Floro writes about parallels between being a single mom and trying to fight climate change revaluingcare.org/caregiving-ski…

Good piece on what's happening up north: hechingerreport.org/what-america-c…

Go North. This is a hilarious and spot-on piece about climate change and urban policy: thebaffler.com/latest/go-nort…

Excellent info on the child care cliff, state by state. Note high level of carnage in Texas and Florida. If only parents could go on strike (rather than just potential parents, who I think sort of are on strike) tcf.org/content/report…

Teachers show up for our students while facing ongoing challenges with COVID-19, rising school violence & curriculum battles. State & local governments, policymakers, and others can help reverse the downward trend in teacher pay.

The federal de-funding of childcare relief funding in the U.S., starting today, is not actually throwing children off a cliff. It's just shoving many of them, along with their parents, down some dark bottomless stairs. tinyurl.com/8v389349 tinyurl.com/3jztnht9

How to challenge neoclassical economics: "The Hybrid Vigor of Heterodox Economics: A Feminist Perspective," just published in the Journal of Philosophical Economics hal.science/hal-03914425v2

Getting to win-win--labor justice for migrant care workers--a blog symposium revaluingcare.org/category/care-…

Wall Street Journal Headline: EU Think Tank Proposes Global Minimum Tax on Billionaires. Tax on fewer than 3,000 billionaires could raise nearly $250 billion annually, report says tinyurl.com/mcm75v8p

Our country subjects people in need of food assistance to a litany of conditions to qualify, yet refuses to place a *single* condition on billions of public funds to prevent enabling an atrocity. It is appalling. Thousands of children, dead. This is the result of “no red lines.”

Never unsee this photo, world. Never forget that in the moment when Israel was slaughtering 136 children a day in Gaza, not one single white U.S. Congressperson not ONE could bring themselves to call for a ceasefire.

Valuable international/interdisciplinary discussion of why care is undervalued: revaluingcare.org/category/care-… see related episodes especially relevant to the UK at centreforcare.ac.uk/podcast/ Economic and Social Research Council

A new book confronts the complexities of social protection for migrant workers. A brief blog review at revaluingcare.org/bargain-huntin…

"If we allow this brazen slaughter to continue, something in our moral selves will be altered forever. Are we going to simply stand by and watch hospitals bombed, a million people displaced and dead children in thousands pulled out from under the rubble?" scroll.in/article/105922…

Perhaps you’re curious to know—just hypothetically–how far the current value of global cryptocurrency could go toward increasing the supply of child care in the U.S. revaluingcare.org/cryptocare/

How different might our society look if public safety could be reimagined as caring for people and communities? revaluingcare.org/responding-to-…

Perhaps you’re curious to know—just hypothetically–how far the current value of global cryptocurrency could go toward increasing the supply of child care in the U.S. revaluingcare.org/cryptocare/

Conventional wisdom: private business investment is biggest economic driver. New argument: NOT REALLY. Fred Block explains how government and community/household investment add up to a much bigger boost. link.springer.com/article/10.100… graphic thanks to creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.…

“Even before this escalation, over half the parents we spoke to reported that their children were self-harming or experiencing suicidal thoughts. We are running out of words to articulate the scale of children’s suffering.” newarab.com/features/scarr…