Crisis Conversations: Will 2020 be the year care becomes a bipartisan issue?
Could election 2020 bring better caregiving policy? Or do we need to rely on the "three daughter" rule ...
Better Life Lab · New America
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Show Notes
What role will care and caregiving could play in the 2020 election. Pundits have long insisted that care issues like childcare, elder care and paid and unpaid caregiving are not “bread and butter” economic issues that move voters or swing elections. Will that change in this unprecedented time of COVID-19? Are voters beginning to see that care work is no longer just “women’s work,” but central to a functioning economy? And what difference could that make on Nov. 3?
Host:
Brigid Schulte, Director, Better Life Lab at New America
Guests:
Abby McCloskey, Economist, fellow with the Bipartisan Policy Center, and founder of McCloskey Policy LLC. She has advised multiple presidential campaigns, including those of Howard Schultz, Jeb Bush and Rick Perry. She is a member of the AEI-Brookings Bipartisan working group on paid leave.
Amanda Brown Lierman, Managing Director, Supermajority, a progressive, membership-based organization that trains women to become effective advocates to build an equitable future for all women, and former political and organizing director for the Democratic National Committee.
Roselyn Miller, Better Life Lab policy analyst and author of The Bipartisan Case for Caregiving.
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