Better Life Lab
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Elevating the Value of Care. Advancing Gender Equity. Reframing the Narrative of Work-Family Justice @NewAmerica. Better Work. Better Care. Better Life.
At a time of rising deportations, visa rollbacks & reproductive rights attacks, a new generation of fathers is stepping up—emotionally present, politically aware & determined to build loving, stable families in uncertain times. newamerica.org/the-thread/mod…
Great news out of California - more people are using #PaidLeave to care now that the program benefits make #TimeToCare affordable for workers and families! laist.com/news/education…
Childcare is a hellscape in this country. WHY AREN'T MORE PEOPLE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT?, ask @Beckgale and @ehaspel via @guardian. How did we get here and what needs to change for things to move forward in a different - and better - direction. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
1/ "One nearly 20-year veteran of the State Department on parental leave logged into her work email from home Friday morning to wait “for the hammer to drop,” she said. Her firing leaves their family with one income and a newborn to support, she said. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
People are voting with their feet and their dollars due to abortion bans. Bans are bad economics for states looking to attract younger people and families -- and that's on top of the harm inflicted on people's health & safety. wsj.com/us-news/aborti…
As the federal landscape shifts away from providing more support for the early care & education sectors, states continue to innovate by making policy, tax & spending decisions designed to support early educators & families, writes @Beckgale in @The74. the74million.org/zero2eight/abs…
Big beautiful reality check: More than 70% of working-age people who receive nutrition benefits or Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income children and adults that covers one in five Americans, ARE ALREADY WORKING. #MedicaidMatters
Why lies about people living in poverty to garner support for cutting Medicaid & food assistance hurts all of us. A must watch @BrigidSchulte video on how politicians must work together to promote policies that actually bolster the livelihoods of workers & their families.
In addition to making major investments in early care and education, some of New Mexico's Head Start programs are also prioritizing preserving tribal culture in their work with young children and families, writes Better Life Lab's Rebecca Gale via @The74. the74million.org/zero2eight/for…
#NM's early care & education system has undergone dramatic changes in past 5 years, with an influx of investment from state upending the sector’s traditional business model which, in most of US, relies on thin margins & poverty wages for providers. @The74 the74million.org/zero2eight/new…
"@BrigidSchulte & Haley Swenson detail the harm Trump’s 'big beautiful bill' will cause tens of millions of the most vulnerable Americans & the fictions abt poverty that are being used to justify this Darwinian right-wing social engineering." via @Salon salon.com/2025/06/12/the…
Why are you fried? Could it be "time confetti"--something @BrigidSchulte describes as trying to do “everything. all at once. all the time.” Are you losing tiny bits of time along the way to endless mundane multitasking? Check out this @ScaryMommy article. scarymommy.com/lifestyle/time…
