What parent doesn’t remember trying to juggle work and childcare during Covid? Our guest on the pod this week, Sondra Goldschein, remembers the experience as a “primal scream.” And unfortunately, our childcare crisis is not over.
Good childcare can cost as much as rent, a mortgage, or even in-state college tuition. When parents — and let’s be honest, it’s usually moms — are forced to prioritize childcare over their jobs, they lose income, professional advancement, and security for retirement.
But we shouldn’t have to solve this problem on our own. Childcare is infrastructure, just like roads and bridges and train tracks. After all, you can’t get to work if you don’t have childcare for your kids!
The Biden/Harris administration has always prioritized policies to help working families, while Trump and J.D. Vance don’t think that childcare is something for “normal people.” The choice in November is clear.
Childcare is important for women, it’s important for families, and it’s important for the economy. End of story.
That Primal Scream