Ai-jen Poo, director of the Care in Action, joins The American Prospect's executive editor David Dayen for a conversation on Family Care, and why this issue needs to be at the top of the nation's legislative agenda.
Featuring Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, David Dayen, Ai-jen Poo, Lynnea Redmon-Williams, and Brittany Gibson
They will be joined by Lynnea Redmon-Williams, who works full time while caring for both her children and her mother; Brittany Gibson, Prospect writing fellow who reports on models for caregiving from around the world; and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, who teaches sociology at the University of Southern California and details the challenges faced by elders caring for elders.
You can read these articles and more in the Prospect's Special Report on Building Universal Family Care, published this week at Prospect.org/familycare.