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Ep. 47: Paid Leave, Child Tax Credit, Affordable Childcare, and UPK - Why Families Need Them All
Parenting and Politics
English - October 18, 2021 23:39 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSociety & Culture Kids & Family activism parenting politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep. 46: Why the Time to #SolveChildcare is Now with Nina Perez
In this episode Diana talks to Julie Kashen, Director of Economic Justice at the Century Foundation, about the family friendly policies that parents need and why these policies shouldn’t be looked at separately, but why we need them together.
We discuss why this is a historic moment to finally get the family friendly Policies families in the USA need now: paid leave, the child tax credit, affordable child care and universal pre-k past the finish line and signed into law.
Listen to find out what's happening in Congress and why we must make all these investments now.
You can follow Julie on Twitter: @juliekashen
and The Century Foundation: @tcfdotorg