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❤️ @domesticworkers @caringacrossgen @careinactionUS @supermajority. Co-host: @sunstormpod. Opinions entirely my own. #FamiliesBelongTogether #CareCantWait
Apr 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Since @POTUS revealed the #AmericanJobsPlan, there’s been discussion about whether or not care is infrastructure.

Infrastructure = basic structure needed for our society & economy to run. Caring for each other has always been the fulcrum of both. [THREAD] 1/9 Care is constant. We all receive care from the moment we’re born to when we die. So of course care is infrastructure...our human infrastructure includes things like schools & the full range of care: the supports & services that allow us to work, grow & thrive.

#CareCantWait 2/9
Jul 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Over 20 years working on caregiving solutions & this is the first time a presidential campaign has made investments in the care economy a core strategy in their economic agenda. Not a side issue, an add on, or a special interest. [THREAD] Also, the needs of care workers -- the domestic workers, home care, child care workers & educators who support America's working families and their own -- their wages, benefits, training & care are front & center, as they should be.
May 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
As I write in @nybooks, this pandemic has suddenly created mass public awareness about the importance of care work.

We are struggling to take care of our families in new ways, and finally recognizing how crucial caregivers are to our economy & society.

nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/… Even before the crisis, it was all on the brink of collapse - families were struggling to afford care, while our underpaid care workforce could barely make ends meet. As our population ages and family structures evolve, our reliance on the care economy just continues to increase.
Mar 6, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Dear @ewarren, when I tell the story of your presidential campaign to all the children in my life (which I will), here's some of what I'll share about why we should all be saying #ThankYouElizabethWarren . . . . (1/8) You put up front & made visible what women, especially working class women, usually do quietly: we figure out what must be done - no matter how impossible it seems - and figure out a way to do it; we help people see the plan -- the way to make the impossible, possible. (2/8)