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Confronting the Crisis in Caregiving
A Special Report on Universal Family Care

When it comes to helping people care for family, the country is failing.
It's time to examine this basic inhumanity and offer ideas for fixing
it. The American Prospect has partnered with Caring Across Generations
to produce a special report on how family care works right now and the
universal solution that can make it better.

prospect.org/familycare

Part I: Caregiving In Crisis

* An introductory piece by David Dayen

on why we need universal family care.

* Janelle Jones of Groundwork Collaborative on the failed economics of
care work
.

* Kimberly Morgan of George Washington University on the missed
opportunities to fix this system

throughout U.S. history.

* Bryce Covert on the small businesses that provide child care
, and how they
struggle to survive.

* Marcia Brown on care worker organizing
,
which has made marginal gains through force of will.

* Tasmiha Khan on family care and the pandemic
, and
the impossible choices facing families.

* Sara Luterman on disability care
, an
overlooked part of the family care system.

* Sarah Jaffe on the crisis of U.S. workers without paid sick leave
.

* Alex Sammon on the collapse of long-term care insurance
,
a system that is no longer sustainable to protect people from elder care
expenses.

* Moe Tkacik with an amazing long-read on the corporatization of nursing
homes
,
captured by a predatory outfit decades ago that set the stage for many
of private equity's worst tricks.

* Rhacel Salazar Parrenas on the aging of migrant domestic workers
,
and the situation of the elderly caring for the elderly.

* Brittany Gibson explains what caregiving looks like in the UK
.

* Prospect interns Shera Avi-Yonah, Blaise Malley, and Alex J. Rouhandeh
interviewed eight people
caught up in the
care economy, as providers, as workers, as caregivers, as care
recipients. They tell their stories.

Part II: The Social Insurance Solution

* David Dayen interviewed Ai-jen Poo about the concept of a universal
social insurance program
with a
single point of access to handle childcare, paid leave, and long-term
care for the elderly or people with disabilities.

* Bill Spriggs on how we must build a care economy
, and
value families and particularly the women of color who bear most of the
burdens.

* Cassandra Lyn Robertson and Darrick Hamilton explain how economic
rights like the right to family care comprise a new industrial policy

to better support economic growth.

* Bob Kuttner costs out a universal family care system
,
and the choices that will need to be made.

* Brittany Gibson looks at family care models from around the world
,
finding options for a universal family care program in the U.S.

* Gabrielle Gurley focuses on Washington state
,
which has instituted a social insurance program for long-term care, paid
family and medical leave, and a cap on child care expenses for
low-income families. It's the closest to a Care For All state in the
U.S.

* Rachel M. Cohen analyzes the politics of family care
,
including new polling showing a universal system to be popular.

* Seth Borgos and Dorian Warren highlight activism around child care

as a case study in how to build a care movement.

Parting Shot

* Robert Kuttner interviews Sen. Elizabeth Warren

about the importance of care infrastructure.

Watch the Discussion
The Crisis in Family Care, and How to Fix It

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. With family caregiver

**Lynnea Redmon-Williams**, and

**Prospect**writers Brittany Gibson, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas,

**and**

**Tasmiha Khan**. Now streaming on YouTube
.

prospect.org/familycare

 

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