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Motherhood didn’t make me less ambitious. It sharpened my focus and made me more intentional about the work I take on.
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (876+ words) Before I became a mother, I thought ambition meant saying yes. Yes to another assignment, even if the pay was mediocre. Yes to the meeting that probably could have been an email. Yes to the opportunity that sounded impressive, even…...
Workers disappeared. Caregiving helps explain why.
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (149+ words) The Aug. 8 online Business article “Unemployment improved — because thousands of workers disappeared. Where did they go?” asked an essential question but missed part of the answer: caregiving. The aging U.S. population is a key driver of this issue, not…...
My parents could spend their retirement doing anything. They chose to help raise my children.
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (704+ words) This story is based on an interview with Dr. Brintha Vasagar, 42, a family physician from Milwaukee. It has been edited for length and clarity. When my husband, Tim, 41, and I finally got pregnant, one of the best things was telling…...
Military spouses aren’t interested in staying silent
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (514+ words) Whenever I started to make waves as a passionately defiant young adult, my Costa Rica-born mother would utter a phrase familiar to Latin American women across the diaspora: “Calladita te ves más bonita.” Loosely translated, it means “You look prettier…...
Paxton and Talarico Offer Diverging Paths on Affordability
1+ week, 3+ day ago (644+ words) Ken Paxton pitched his plan to make Texas more affordable in a Mexican restaurant crammed with people, working mostly off the cuff from a small, crumpled page of notes. A day later, on Wednesday night, James Talarico read his plan…...
Free Day Care Spots Lift a $26,000 Burden for These N.Y.C. Families
1+ week, 3+ day ago (788+ words) Christine Liverpool considered sending her daughter, Cadence, to a private day care center in Queens this fall, but it was too expensive at $1,500 per month. She decided to keep her at home with relatives while she works as a New…...
How High Could the Bill for Free Child Care Go?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1203+ words) Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at a report that estimates it could cost $9 billion a year to fund free child care until age 5 in New York City. In his campaign to make life in New York City more…...
Mamdani May Need to Find $5 Billion More a Year for Free Child Care
1+ week, 6+ day ago (753+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vision for a free child care system for all New York City children under 5 could cost much more than he estimated, according to a new report set to be released on Monday. A new model developed by…...
‘Slap in the face’: GOP torpedoes bid to stop Trump from raising childcare costs
2+ week, 1+ day ago (743+ words) In what Democratic Sen. Patty Murray described as a “slap in the face to moms and dads,” Republicans have blocked her proposed resolution to restore a rule that could have saved low-income parents thousands of dollars per year on childcare…...
They thought they’d be retiring. Instead, they’re grandparenting full time.
3+ week, 48+ min ago (1509+ words) It’s not the way they thought they’d be spending their older years: getting two tweens ready for school and scraping together meals from food banks. At the crack of dawn one Tuesday morning, 59-year-old Vicki Parisella bangs on her granddaughters…...