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No One is Coming to Save Us

86 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 945 ratings

Neighborhood Villages and Lemonada Media are taking their drive for access to quality, affordable early childcare on the road for Season 3 of the hit podcast, No One is Coming to Save Us! Join host and veteran reporter Gloria Riviera as she sets out across America to find out who is working on fixing the country’s broken childcare system. Gloria hears from local leaders, policy makers, parents, providers, and more about the childcare crisis in their communities. Whether in front of a live crowd or a virtual audience, these episodes provide vital perspectives, solutions, and insights about how different communities are role models for nationwide change.


 

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Listen Now: The Dough Season Two

March 21, 2024 07:30 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

Hey, Listeners! The team at Lemonada Media is excited to let you know that The Dough is back for Season Two! This season, host X Mayo (The Blackening, The Daily Show, Swarm) returns for weekly conversations with reality stars, entrepreneurs, financial experts…basically anyone who will get real with her about their relationship with money. We’re talking to people about the risks they take to make the dough, how they spend it, and how they save it.   You’re about to hear an episode of The Do...

Listen Now: Archetypes with Meghan

March 06, 2024 08:30 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

Introducing Archetypes, a refreshing and dynamic podcast where Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, dives into the labels that try to hold women back. During these intimate and candid conversations with guests from around the world, we discover how these archetypes impact our everyday lives in ways big and small. With experts and historians, Meghan also uncovers how we got here in the first place – unearthing the origin of words such as ‘diva’, ‘slut’, ‘the B word’, ‘hysterical’, and many more, an...

Fostering a Better Future (with Sandra Gasca and Lisa Guillette)

December 14, 2023 08:30 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

When young adults leave the foster care system they’re left trying to find housing or employment on their own. Oftentimes, the thing they yearn for the most is family. In this special episode, Gloria chats with the Vice President of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Systems Innovation, Sandra Gasca, and CEO at Foster Forward, Lisa Guillette. Our guests discuss how they’re helping youth aging out of foster care age into an ecosystem of belonging. Whether it’s legally creating ‘soul’ ...

How Care Can Bring Our Country Together (Live from CareFest LA)

November 16, 2023 08:30 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB

Gloria is live at CareFest in Los Angeles, presented by Caring Across Generations, to bring you a conversation among leading care advocates about the potential of the care agenda to unite a divided nation. She is joined by Lisa Hamilton Daly, the Executive Vice President of Programming for Hallmark Media; Mónica Ramirez, an attorney, author, and founder of Justice for Migrant Women; and Jenn Stowe, the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. They talk about changing the...

Uniting Parents to Improve Schools (with Keri Rodrigues)

November 02, 2023 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

Keri Rodrigues's son was suspended 36 times while he was in kindergarten. She felt abandoned by school officials and like the teachers hated her child. So she went into mama bear mode, organized local parents, and changed the local school system. Now, as President of the National Parents Union, she’s organizing parents across the country to help improve their local schools and make schools more equitable for all.  Show Notes Presented by Neighborhood Villages. Neighborhood Villages is a Ma...

How Richmond Raised the Standard For Mixed Delivery Care

October 19, 2023 07:30 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

The tour makes a virtual stop in Richmond, where host Gloria Riviera learns how the community has built a public-private partnership to help subsidize a mixed-delivery model of care that helps families find programs tailored to their specific needs. This week we meet Cheryl Morman, a family child care provider and president of the Virginia Alliance for Family Child Care Association; J David Young, executive director of FRIENDS Association for Children; and Jodi Roberts, the director of earl...

How We Close the Nation’s Literacy Gap

September 07, 2023 07:30 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB

Literacy advocates are asking us all to face an uncomfortable reality: For decades, we’ve done a poor job of teaching children how to read in this country, and the widening gap in literacy is most apparent among our Black, Latino and Native American young people. The good news is that we now know many the sources of our problems with literacy instruction, and advocates have both the policy solutions and new curricula to tackle the issue head on. Gloria speaks with panelists Jamila Newman of...

Lessons Learned From Our National Tour (With Latoya Gayle)

August 24, 2023 07:30 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

As we conclude our national tour, host Gloria Riviera and our partner Latoya Gayle reflect on the lessons learned from advocates and caretakers we met across the U.S. They chat about the inspiration they are taking away from this journey after meeting so many people working to make a difference in the lives of families everywhere. Later in the episode, Gloria and Latoya discuss how you take the lessons learned and get involved in your community, and walk through exactly what to say when you...

How Colorado Comes Together To Care for Kids

August 17, 2023 07:30 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

The tour stops in Denver to learn how advocates are advancing universal pre-k and how they’re working to fill the rest of the child care and early childhood education puzzle so children have robust support from ages birth to five. We meet panelists Natriece Bryant, public private partnership director for the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration; Lorena Garcia, representative for the 35th District in the Colorado House of Representatives and the executive director for Colorado S...

How New Mexico Negotiated Big Childcare Wins

August 10, 2023 07:30 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MB

Throughout the tour, New Mexico has been held up as the shining example of communities coming together to energize voters and pass funding for early child care. For over a decade, organizers worked tirelessly to pass a constitutional amendment which increased funding for early childhood education. This week, we meet panelists Trisha Moquino, founder of Keres Children’s Learning Center, a not-for-profit educational organization that supports Cochiti Pueblo families; Elizabeth Groginsky, cabi...

How Texas Tackled A Child Care Shortage

August 03, 2023 07:30 - 50 minutes - 46 MB

The tour makes a virtual stop in Texas to learn how child care and early childhood education advocates are working with business leaders and elected officials across the political spectrum to expand care options for families.  We meet panelists Councilmember Vanessa Fuentes, the representative for District 2 on the Austin City Council; Natalie Boyle, founder and CEO of Mommies in Need; and Sarah Baray, chief executive officer of Pre-K 4 SA, San Antonio’s award-winning early learning program...

How Detroit Delivered Investments in Child Care

July 27, 2023 07:30 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

The tour stops in Detroit to highlight how advocates are expanding quality child care and education options for Michigan families; and how they’re advancing historic state investments in child care by promoting early childhood education as a public good, not a private benefit. We meet panelists Denise Smith, the implementation director for Hope Starts Here, a coalition and framework to transform early childhood education and services in Detroit; Danielle Atkinson, founder of Mothering Justi...

How Birmingham Built Bipartisan Support for Child Care

July 20, 2023 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

The tour makes a virtual stop in Birmingham, where host Gloria Riviera learns how local advocates successfully lobbied lawmakers to make a historic investment in funding for both voluntary pre-k as well as initiatives that bolster the quality of early childhood education. This week we meet Catrice Pruitt, the director of programs at Childcare Resources, and Allison Muhlendorf, the executive director of the Alabama School Readiness Alliance, both of whom are leaders in movements to increase ...

How D.C. Drove Support For Universal Child Care (Live at DCTV)

July 12, 2023 07:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

The tour stops in our nation's capital to speak with local advocates about lessons learned from their successful, years-long campaign to pass universal pre-k in D.C.; how cities can better retain early childhood educators; and how to garner lawmaker support for improving child care. We meet panelists Marica Cox Mitchell, vice president of early childhood at the Bainum Family Foundation; Beatriz “BB” Otero, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy; and LaShada Ham-Campbell,...

How Oakland Overcomes Racial Disparities in Child Care (Live at KDOL-TV)

July 06, 2023 07:30 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

This week Gloria Riviera is live at KDOL-TV with a trio of women who are fighting against racial inequities facing families in Oakland. They shine a light on how the struggle for racial justice and access to early childhood development go hand-in-hand. We meet panelists Clarissa Doutherd, executive director of Parent Voices Oakland; LaWanda Wesley, director of government relations of early learning at the Child Care Resource Center; and Myeisha Jones, a parent of two beautiful children and ...

How Tulsa’s Tackling Child Care Deserts (Live From the Woody Guthrie Center)

June 29, 2023 07:30 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

On the first stop of the national tour, host Gloria Riviera is live in Tulsa to speak with members of a coalition that is supporting both families and childhood educators while working to stamp out Oklahoma’s expansive child care desert. We meet panelists Cindy Decker, executive director of Tulsa Educare, an early childcare provider in Tulsa; Jackie Evans, owner of Aunt Jackie’s Family Childcare Home, one of six family child care programs in Tulsa Educare’s Partnerships program; and Jennif...

Setting Out To Meet the People Coming to Save Us (With Latoya Gayle)

June 22, 2023 07:30 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

We’re back for Season 3, and this year, host Gloria Riviera is setting out across the U.S. to meet the people who are fixing the child care crisis. A lot has happened since Season 2, and in this episode, Latoya Gayle from Neighborhood Villages updates us about what we’ve been missing, including President Biden’s recent executive order on child care and what it  means for you. Plus, Gloria and Latoya preview some  state-level legislative reforms on child care we’ll learn more about throughout...

No One Is Coming To Save Us Season 3 (Official Trailer)

June 08, 2023 07:30 - 1 minute - 1.18 MB

America’s child care system is broken and still, more than three years after the pandemic began, No One Is Coming To Save Us. That’s why Gloria Riviera is setting out this season to tour the country and meet the people who are doing the work to fix things themselves. With live and virtual events recorded in cities across America, find out how we’re going to come together and make things better. Season 3 of No One Is Coming To Save Us: coming June 22 wherever you get your podcasts. See omnys...

No One is Coming To... A City Near You

April 25, 2023 00:47 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB

Join veteran reporter Gloria Riviera as she sets out across America to find out who’s working on fixing the country’s broken child care system. See the show live in Detroit, Washington, D.C., Tulsa, and more. Find all the details and learn how to get free tickets HERE. And if you can’t make it, No One Is Coming to Save Us returns with new episodes in June. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What Will the Fight for Child Care Look Like in 2023? (with Lauren Kennedy & Sarah Muncey)

December 29, 2022 08:30 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB

“The state of child care in America right now is hopeful.” While affordable, accessible, high-quality child care remains out of reach for millions of families across the country, Lauren Kennedy and Sarah Muncey, founders and co-presidents of Neighborhood Villages, see sparks of positive change in the year ahead. They talk Gloria through some of the big child care wins from the past year, explain why the Child Tax Credit was a total game-changer, and lay out why the next phase of this movemen...

Creating Community Through Child Care (with Jamal Berry)

December 22, 2022 08:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

What happens when a child care center supports not only its children, but its staff, its families, and its community, too? Gloria finds out from Jamal Berry, the newly-appointed President and CEO of Educare DC, an early learning program that provides free, high-quality child care to low-income families. Jamal tells Gloria how they’re closing the achievement gap using a holistic, two-generation approach, and what is possible with good funding, passionate people at the helm, and devoted folks ...

What You Can Do to Help End Child Poverty (with David Ambroz)

December 15, 2022 08:30 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

Hundreds of thousands of young people in this country live in poverty or are homeless. Many thousands more face uncertain futures, and even abuse, while navigating (or languishing in) the foster care system. In A Place Called Home, author and child welfare advocate David Ambroz chronicles his life growing up homeless in New York City. He tells Gloria about his experience in foster care, the work he’s done to make the system safer for LGBTQ+ youth, and what action is still needed to begin sol...

What It Really Means to Not Have Child Care (with Sa’iyda Shabazz)

December 08, 2022 08:30 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

How do you find a job when you have no child care? How do you find an apartment with no job? How do you pull off Christmas when you’re stressed about making next month’s rent? Sa’iyda Shabazz has done it all. The writer and mother joins Gloria to tell her about how she made it all work – balancing single motherhood, unemployment, housing insecurity, and a lack of child care – in a new city far away from her support system. Plus, Sa’iyda talks about why she’s pushing back against the narrativ...

One Single Mom’s Child Care Journey (with Waukecha Wilkerson)

December 01, 2022 08:30 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

Gloria has a heart-to-heart conversation with Waukecha Wilkerson, a student parent advocate and single mom of three, about how her years-long struggle with child care ultimately put her on the path to earning her college degree. Waukecha talks about growing up as a gifted child in Compton, falling in with the wrong crowd, and getting pregnant in her early 20s. Her journey takes her through toxic relationships, job losses, battles with depression, and desperate searches for child care. She te...

Listen Now: Uncared For

November 24, 2022 08:30 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB

The producers of this series wanted to share Lemonada Media’s new release with you. It’s called Uncared For. You’re more likely to die as a pregnant person in the United States than any other wealthy nation in the world. Why? This six-part series, hosted by award-winning journalist SuChin Pak (Add to Cart, MTV News), takes a deeply personal and wide-ranging look at maternal health care around the globe to find the answer. We start in the United States then travel to Germany, the Netherlands,...

The Surprising Intersection of Faith and Abortion (with Jamie Manson and Jeanné Lewis)

November 17, 2022 08:30 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB

One in four people who’ve had an abortion identify as Catholic. That surprised Gloria, as most Catholic leaders are ardently against the procedure. In this episode, Gloria talks with Jamie Manson, the president of Catholics for Choice, and Jeanné Lewis, interim CEO at Faith in Public Life Action, about how abortion rights are viewed across different faiths. They also talk about what the recent midterm election revealed about abortion access, and how, with the right kind of conversation, you ...

Do Early Educators Need College Degrees? (with Stephanie Curenton)

November 10, 2022 08:30 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB

Gloria kicks off the show by unpacking the numerous abortion rights and child care wins coming out of the midterm elections. Then, she chats with Stephanie Curenton, associate professor at Boston University and the director of their Center for the Ecology of Early Childhood Development. Stephanie talks about her research on the social, cognitive, and language development of low-income and minority children and the work she’s doing to create an anti-bias, anti-racist curriculum rubric for ear...

Fighting Back Against Classroom Censorship

November 03, 2022 07:30 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

Gloria gets a lesson on the nationwide effort to censor classroom discussions on racism and inequality from Morgan Craven and Ben Hodge. First, Morgan, the director of Policy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement with the Intercultural Development Research Association, debunks some of the misinformation about what is being taught in our public schools. Then, Ben, a teacher at Central York High School in Pennsylvania, tells the story of what happened at his school when an all-white school board...

The First City with Universal Child Care (with Julie Menin)

October 27, 2022 07:30 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

Gloria sits down with NYC Council Member Julie Menin to learn how New York became the first city in the United States to pass universal child care. Julie talks about running a campaign centered on child care, how she convinced her colleagues to vote for this bill, and what will happen now that it’s passed. Plus, they break down what each bill in her package will do, including creating a child care directory and online portal for local, state, and federal child care subsidies. Plus, Julie exp...

Yes, Inflation is Making Child Care Cost More (with Lynette Fraga)

October 20, 2022 07:30 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

Gloria calls up Lynette Fraga, CEO of Child Care Aware of America, to unpack the many reasons why America’s child care crisis has only gotten worse over the past year, from inflation to the workforce crisis. Lynette explains why the military’s child care system, famous for its high quality and accessibility, is also struggling right now, with more than 11,000 children under 5 in need of a child care spot urgently. Plus, a story from the No One Is Coming to Save Us community about a new mom l...

Why We Need to Stop Saying “Working Mother” (with Katherine Goldstein)

October 13, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

Gloria gets a lesson from journalist Katherine Goldstein about why she no longer uses the term “working mother.” Katherine, who is also the founder of The Double Shift newsletter, podcast, and community, explains why the phrase devalues caregiving, and how it creates an artificial barrier between mothers that prevents them from addressing their shared struggles and concerns. Then, Katherine makes the case for year-round public school and 8-hour school days, and debunks the myth that remote w...

No One Is Coming to Save Us LIVE: Unpacking the Child Care Crisis

October 06, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

The pandemic has brought the fault lines and inequities in our social sectors into sharp focus, perhaps most glaringly child care. The economic and social impacts of our failure to publicly invest in child care have become untenable not only for parents, but also for early education providers and teachers. In our first-ever live episode, Gloria moderates a panel of policy experts, child care advocates, and on-the-ground activists to help us better understand the underlying causes of the chil...

Replacing Post-Roe Helplessness with Action (with Leslie Mac)

September 29, 2022 07:30 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MB

Many of us were left with far more questions than answers when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer. A campaign called Day Without Us, happening on September 30th, is an opportunity to learn more about the fight for reproductive justice in America. Gloria and Leslie Mac, one of the organizers of this national teach-in, discuss how you can participate in Day Without Us, how to continue doing the important work afterwards, and why we need to think of other social justice issues...

Is Maternal Instinct a Myth? (with Chelsea Conaboy)

September 22, 2022 07:30 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Gloria dives into the science of parenting with Chelsea Conaboy, author of Mother Brain: How Neuroscience is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood. They discuss how becoming a parent physically changes your brain, what the science says about the highly-debated “maternal instinct,” and how she hopes these new findings can get more people in this country to value caregivers. Plus, what we know about the brain transformation of non-biological parents.    Get your free tickets for the No One Is Co...

Is Philanthropy Coming to Save Us? (with David Merage and Sue Renner)

September 15, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

Gloria learns what venture philanthropists are doing to fix early childhood education in this country with David Merage and Sue Renner from the David and Laura Merage Foundation. They discuss the wins they’ve had in their home state of Colorado, what they’ve been able to expand across the United States, and how they’re working to bring business leaders into the fold to be a voice for the voiceless. Plus, David outlines his goal of being able to change the name of the show to Everyone Is Comi...

Why We Need a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (with Ai-jen Poo)

September 08, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes - 44 MB

Gloria talks all things care with Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Ai-jen has been advocating for care workers for over twenty years and outlines why caregivers are both undervalued and undercompensated, how the pandemic adversely affected millions of domestic workers, and the urgent need for a national Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Plus, Gloria and Ai-jen poignantly reflect on how meaningful it was to be able to give their loved ones quality care towards t...

The Child Care Crisis Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been

September 01, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

Gloria gets an update on the state of child care in this country from Lauren Kennedy and Sarah Muncey, the co-founders of Neighborhood Villages. First, Lauren provides an overview of what’s happening on the legislative front, and tells us what we ended up with in the Inflation Reduction Act. Then, Sarah lays out the realities on the ground, where she says the child care crisis is worse than it’s ever been and why, in spite of that, she considers this to be a very hopeful moment, too. Plus, L...

You're (Still) Not Crazy. Childcare Is.

August 25, 2022 07:30 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Listen again as Gloria breaks down how we’re all breaking down: parents, teachers, and child care providers. And Kristen Bell joins to “call it like it is” on the cost of child care. Parents are languishing on waitlists or drowning in tuition bills. Teachers are underpaid. And providers can barely afford to keep the lights on. “We set families up to struggle. We put every barrier we can in their way. And then when they do need assistance, we demonize them as though they've done something wro...

How Kansas Saved Abortion … For Now (with Rachel Sweet)

August 18, 2022 07:30 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

The first chance voters had to weigh in on abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade was in the reliably conservative state of Kansas. And, despite all odds, Kansas voters rejected the GOP-led effort to restrict abortion. Gloria gets the details on the big victory for abortion rights from Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom. Gloria and Rachel discuss how the campaign built a pro-choice coalition across party lines, what they heard from voters o...

How to Help in States Where Abortion Is Illegal (with Camille Bennett)

August 11, 2022 07:30 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

Gloria takes a look at what it’s like on the ground in a state with some of the country’s most restrictive anti-abortion laws alongside Project Say Something founder Camille Bennett, whose organization confronts anti-Black racism in Alabama. They discuss how Camille is still able to help women in her state, what else conservative politicians want to enact to make life difficult for women in Alabama, and what made her hire security to accompany her at all Project Say Something events. Plus, C...

Mothers Are Essential Workers Too (with Angela Garbes)

August 04, 2022 07:30 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

We rightly celebrated people like health care workers, teachers, and grocery store employees during the heart of the pandemic as the essential workers who kept our country going. But Angela Garbes, author of “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change,” tells Gloria that we need to think of parents, and especially mothers, as essential workers, too. They get into why we devalue the labor of mothers and caregivers, how we are in a pivotal moment right now with regards to care in America, and...

Overturning Roe Didn’t Happen Overnight (with Jessica Arons)

July 28, 2022 07:30 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

Gloria is joined by Jessica Arons, senior policy counsel at the ACLU, to talk about the decades-long legal battle by abortion rights opponents to overturn Roe. They discuss how we got here, what’s being done to get our rights back, and what the Dobbs decision will mean for our already inadequate child care system. Plus, Jessica tells the personal story of what made her devote her life’s work to fighting for reproductive rights.   Check out these resources that Jessica mentioned on today’s ...

The Fight for Reproductive Justice (with Marcela Howell)

July 21, 2022 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

Gloria unpacks the decades-long struggle for reproductive justice in America with Marcela Howell, president and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda. They discuss the barriers to reproductive freedom for Black people, how the Hyde Amendment makes abortion access even harder for low-income individuals, and why we need to focus on state legislative elections to ensure that even more reproductive rights aren’t taken away. Plus, Gloria talks with Daisy Han,...

Inside an Abortion Clinic the Day Roe Was Overturned

July 14, 2022 07:30 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

As we continue to investigate what life looks like for pregnant people and parents in a post-Roe America, Gloria sits down with an abortion clinic nurse who was in the middle of a procedure when the news broke about the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. They talk about what it was like in the clinic that day, what this decision will mean for the country’s remaining abortion providers, and how it will impact those who already have difficulty accessing reproductive care. Plus, sh...

Revisiting How We Save Ourselves

July 07, 2022 07:30 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB

Listen back as Gloria chats with Elizabeth Warren about how we transform our country’s broken childcare system into one that’s accessible for all. “This is the moment to raise your voice. We have this opportunity to do it, but it's going to take all of us to push until it gets done.” Then, we meet a ragtag group of activists in Portland, Oregon fighting for a free, high-quality, universal preschool program in their community. And “Call It Like It Is” correspondent Kristen Bell joins once mor...

What to Do Now That Roe Is Gone (with Lauren Rankin)

June 30, 2022 07:30 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB

Gloria is joined by author and activist Lauren Rankin to outline everything you need to know in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Gloria and Lauren talk about what’s happening right now as a result of this ruling, how and why this decision will disproportionately hurt Black and brown people, and what you can do to support those who need help accessing abortion care. Come for the rage, stay for the actionable steps, and leave with some hope.   Follow Lauren on ...

Special Episode: The Impact of the End of Roe v. Wade

June 25, 2022 07:30 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

The producers of this series wanted to share another Lemonada Media series with you as a resource in the wake of the recent Supreme Court verdict.  In this special breaking-news edition of In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt, Andy helps you understand the impact of yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade. As health clinics in several states halt abortion procedures due to the decision, Andy gets reaction and action items from Caitlin Cruz, a reporter from Jezebel who covers reproductiv...

Even Superstar Athletes Need Child Care (with Allyson Felix and Olga Harvey)

June 23, 2022 07:30 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

It’s not easy for anyone to return to work after becoming a mother, and child care is often the hardest aspect for families to figure out. Track and field star Allyson Felix experienced that firsthand and is determined to make things easier for her fellow athlete moms. And when Allyson sets a goal for herself — whether it’s becoming the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history or changing the child care landscape for athlete moms — she accomplishes it. Allyson and Olga Harvey o...

Women Are Barely Holding On (with Fatima Goss Graves)

June 16, 2022 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

Gloria digs into a devastating report on how the pandemic has affected women and their families with Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. The numbers in this NWLC report, “Resilient But Not Recovered,” are sobering. There are 1.1 million fewer women in the labor force today than there were in February 2020. More than 2/3 of the net jobs lost since the pandemic began were women’s jobs. Only 41% of mothers who left the workforce during the pandemic have ret...

Women Are Barely Holding On

June 16, 2022 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

Gloria digs into a devastating report on how the pandemic has affected women and their families with Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. The numbers in this NWLC report, “Resilient But Not Recovered,” are sobering. There are 1.1 million fewer women in the labor force today than there were in February 2020. More than 2/3 of the net jobs lost since the pandemic began were women’s jobs. Only 41% of mothers who left the workforce during the pandemic have retu...