Some choice passages from today's pieces released today from our family care issue (prospect.org/familycare): 
"Every four years, Republicans and Democrats spar over which party will do more for working families... When it comes to helping people care for family members, though, the country is failing." prospect.org/familycare/why…
"We have a system where there is high demand for a highly valuable service, but in which the financial benefits flow not to the ones providing the service, but rather to the ones purchasing it." -@janellecj prospect.org/familycare/the…
"At critical moments of choice over the past century, the United States could have adopted family care policies of the kind that are now well established in Europe and other parts of the world." Kimberly J. Morgan on why we failed prospect.org/familycare/mis…
"America has entrusted a critical cog of our economic engine, which allows parents to work & young children to thrive, to dedicated small-businesspeople, disproportionately Black, Latino, Asian, & female, engaged in an arduous labor of love." -@brycecovert prospect.org/familycare/run…
"This is the new normal: unionized schoolteachers conducting lessons online from home, and mostly non-union child care workers supervising groups of young learners who can’t stay at home."
-@Marcia_Brown9
prospect.org/familycare/car…
-@Marcia_Brown9
prospect.org/familycare/car…
"Others find themselves sandwiched between providing care for both the young and old. As lifespans increase and wages stagnate, this burden has grown for families" -@CraftOurStory prospect.org/familycare/how…
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