I'm so excited to be releasing our care report card. States have made a lot of progress on care policy in the past two years! go.tcf.org/CareReport26 Still, with most states earning a D or lower, there's still a lot of work to be done. Read our care report card to find out how your state scores:

Care is a vital part of all our lives, and we all rely on care for ourselves and our loved ones. I enjoyed filling out this survey to reflect on how care shows up in my life. Consider taking 5 minutes to fill it out yourself and add to the conversation on care!

Caring Across Generations@caringacross.org · 2mo ago

Building a future of care for all of us starts with talking about it. We’ve launched 1 Million Care Conversations, a national effort to have more honest conversations about care and build the future we truly need. #1MCare Join the conversation: https://bit.ly/4xu65sl

Excited to see the Game Changers policies begin to be released! Nancy Folbre's "Care Package" thoughtfully connects policies that support people across the lifespan and reimagines how the U.S. could support its families. Check it (and the other policy proposals) out below!

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The first Game Changers policy proposals are here! Today's releases explore ending profiteering in healthcare, strengthening worker voice, expanding care, reforming immigration policy, and rethinking the workweek. Explore the collection: GameChangersPolicy.org

"A Project 2029 cannot be a collection of Democratic Party agenda items," our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. "It must articulate a broad new conception of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power."

Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

Lincoln would know how to deal with these Republicans.

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My latest report shows growing auto debt putting financial strain on U.S. households already struggling to afford rising prices for rent, child care, groceries, and more. Read the full report here: tcf.org/content/repo...

Read my latest with @kashenj.bsky.social and SJ Glynn on America's stay-at-home moms: tcf.org/content/comm...

In their new report on stay-at-home-moms, @lfevalle.bsky.social, @kashenj.bsky.social, and SJ Glynn write, “A robust care economy would help moms take care of their families, while also ensuring they have the economic security families need to thrive.” tcf.org/content/comm...

@kashenj.bsky.social and I write for @msmagazine.com, “Freedom is predicated on the right to full civic participation, bodily autonomy & economic security. While feminists have expanded these freedoms to strengthen democracy, the Trump admin is rolling back progress.” msmagazine.com/2026/03/24/t...

Living in the Archive: How the Trump Administration Is Forcing Women’s Rights Back Into History

Every March, we look back to honor the lineage of feminist progress. But in the wake of the Trump administration’s sustained assault on women’s rights, "history" has taken on a darker meaning. This Wo...

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States are stepping up to support families with child care. This report highlights how states can learn from each other to make progress towards making child care more affordable for families in their state

Lea Woods@lea9223.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My new report with @kashenj.bsky.social shows how seven states—AZ, CT, IA, NM, NY, TX, and VT—are taking steps toward effective child care policy. #FundChildCare @tcfdotorg.bsky.social tcf.org/content/repo...

“Universal child care is incredibly popular, being able to access affordable child care that works for your child and your family is not a ‘red’ or ‘blue’ issue, it’s something that people across parties experience every single day,” - @kashenj.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2026/02/aoc-...

AOC and Warren join forces in high-profile child care push ahead of midterms

As Republicans urge Americans to have more children but offer few supportive policies, Democrats believe reducing child care costs could be a winning message.

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After Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance at #SuperBowlLX, everyone’s talking about #PuertoRico. But here’s what many might not know about how federal policy affects the territory 🧵👇

As @kashenj.bsky.social tells @ehaspel.bsky.social in the @us.theguardian.com, “Ultimately, having universal childcare as the goal is something that not only serves the families directly who will benefit from it, but it really serves everyone.”

Child Care for Every Family@childcareforeveryfamily.org · 6mo ago

“The work really started years and years ago,” said Paluso, Co-Director of @childcareforeveryfamily.org. Groups like @olenm.bsky.social spent more than a decade “organizing providers & parents" before securing significant victories. #FundChildCare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today, we are launching the U.S. Democracy Meter, a new tool that deploys a 100-point scale across twenty-three subquestions to evaluate the quality of American democracy: go.tcf.org/DemocracyMeter

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

NEW: The average cost of child care is $13,000/year nationwide. Costs are rising in all but five states, and rising faster than inflation in 39 states and Washington, D.C. @lfevalle.bsky.social and @kashenj.bsky.social explore the state of the care economy and its workforce: go.tcf.org/carecrisis

NEW: Popular holiday gifts are up 26% since last year—nearly nine times the overall inflation rate. 40% of families are buying fewer gifts, nearly one-third are giving presents to fewer people, and more than one in ten are tapping into savings. 🔗 go.tcf.org/holidayprices

Americans spent more this year on Halloween - & Trump’s tariffs are hitting Thanksgiving too. Expect to spend 10% more thanks to economic chaos. That’s 3x the rate of overall inflation! Our new analysis w/ @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org shows how Trump's policies are ruining Thanksgiving.

🦃 NEW: Thanksgiving dinner is up 10% this year — more than 3x overall inflation. Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up. Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org tcf.org/content/comm...

A Pricier Plate: Thanksgiving Costs Climb Nearly 10% This Year

As families across the country prepare to carve turkey and watch football, new analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT

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We finally got jobs data from September, and there are some warning signs for the women in the economy. Black women’s unemployment has reached 7.5 percent. Black women’s unemployment is the canary in the coal mine, currently sitting 4 percentage points higher than white men’s unemployment. 1/

Native women are paid 41 cents for each dollar that white men are paid, one of the starkest gender pay gaps in the U.S.

MomsRising@momsrising.org · 9mo ago

About 64 percent of Native moms are their family breadwinners and they earn just 41 cents paid to the dollar of a white man. https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/native-american-women-wage-gap.pdf

An American economy that prioritizes care gives workers the time they need to care for themselves and their families without risking their job or their paycheck. Read @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org’s new report to learn more: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative #PaidLeaveForAll

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy

Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

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Investments in care policies, including those that support child care, paid leave, aging and disability care, and good jobs for care workers ensure that the government is responsive to people’s basic needs. New from TCF and @caringacross.org: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative

A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible and within reach. My new report for @tcfdotorg.bsky.social with @caringacross.org details how substantive investments in the care economy support families and catalyze economic growth. #CareCantWait go.tcf.org/TheCareImper...

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy

Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

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The Trump administration made it possible for ICE to terrorize children and educators. As @jackiemader.bsky.social reported for @hechingerreport.org earlier this year, ICE was banned from entering child care programs and schools until DHS issued a new directive hechingerreport.org/child-care-c...

Child care centers were off limits to immigration authorities. How that's changed - The Hechinger Report

In the days following President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, Christina Valdez, a child care provider in Minnesota, hung signs at the entrance to the b...

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Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Making AI slop videos and making "your mom" jokes isn't going to lower the cost of child care for millions of parents trying to make ends meet. But free child care would—read more about it from TCF's @kashenj.bsky.social here: tcf.org/content/comm...

Free Child Care Would Help Families Afford a Better Life

Across the country, no matter what background, faith, or color, people are working hard to provide for their families. But as this work has made America

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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

America’s child care crisis isn’t a problem that will go away on its own. Instead of solutions, Trump and Congressional Republicans passed a megabill with child care tax updates too small to fundamentally change how families are experiencing the child care crisis. Learn more: go.tcf.org/crisis

Join us for an evening with award-winning researcher and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman as she launches her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid. 📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC 📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM 🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow

"The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid" Book Launch Event

Award-winning researcher, speaker, and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyemen is releasing her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and

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State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...

The Tri-Share Model Is Not a Solution to the Child Care Crisis

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called child care a “textbook example of a broken market.” The problems plaguing this broken market were aptly

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