I believe that the biggest investment we can make in the future of our population is to build a reliable, highquality, safe, and affordable care infrastructure, focused on childcare from birth to age 5, and to expand our thinking to include the whole cycle of life.
The COVID crisis exposed the beleaguered state of the U.S. care economy. One consequence of this mess was that hundreds of thousands of women who had been managing jobs and kids felt they had to quit their paid work. We were also reminded that so many of our essential workers, including caregivers to both children and the old, don’t earn enough money to
