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America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care

Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and who is it for?

Elliot Haspel··5 min read
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect child care to be a major flashpoint in the 2024 election cycle. There are so many other topics — inflation, abortion, immigration — that regularly suck all the oxygen out of the room. Imagine my surprise, then, when child care suddenly erupted as an issue-of-the-week thanks to a series of increasingly tangled comments by J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. What the episode revealed to me, however, is that America...
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America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care

Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and who is it for?

Elliot Haspel··5 min read
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect child care to be a major flashpoint in the 2024 election cycle. There are so many other topics — inflation, abortion, immigration — that regularly suck all the oxygen out of the room. Imagine my surprise, then, when child care suddenly erupted as an...
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