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The Fed Up Dad Fighting For Paternity Leave for the Rest of Us

By Lizzy Francis

Medicare For All Would Benefit the American Middle Class and American Businesses

By Lizzy Francis

What Unions Do for Families

By Lizzy Francis

This Bill Would Give Nannies Lunch Breaks and Paid Time Off. Finally.

By Lizzy Francis

It’s High Time the United States Had a Department of Children

By Patrick A. Coleman

Where All the 2020 Democrats Stand on Child Care Policy

By Lizzy Francis

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What American Middle-Class Families Need More Than Anything We asked three economists to suggest policies that would really help American families. Here's what they said.

How Baby Boomers Ruined the Economy for the Rest of Us In 'Theft of a Decade,' Joseph C. Sternberg argues how Baby Boomer politicians wrote the rules of an economy that largely serves themselves at the expense of younger generations.

3 Big Issues Parents Need to Focus on During the Democratic Debate The simple fact is that parents today are working harder for less and have fewer and fewer support systems to help them. The idea, then, is to vote to bring those back.

Every Parent Should Be Horrified About What's Happening at Our Border Overcrowded detention centers, cruel punishment, lice, sickness, death. It's happening on our watch.

Modern Parenting Is a Scam Modern parents have been sold a bill of goods by business leaders who want the best labor force in the history of the world, but don't want to pay for it.

This Is Why Modern Parenting Is So Damn Hard Parents are working harder for less and have fewer and fewer support systems. What can be done?

Fund Families, Not a Useless Wall Congress failed to keep the president from spending billions in emergency funding for a border wall. That's money American kids and parents could have used.

The Family Fun Pack Has the Potential to Make Parenting Great Again The People's Policy Project has released a paper offering a slate of universal welfare benefits that would make parenting less stressful and more rewarding for everyone.

10 Political Decisions That Hurt and Helped Kids in 2018 Here's how we failed, and helped, kids in 2018.

Why Senator Cory Booker Wants to Give Your Baby a Trust Fund Senator Cory Booker wants to give your babies money.

Trump Cannot Take Away My Identity As a Transgender Woman and Parent The memorandum is making it okay to discriminate against trans people.

Migrant Families Will Still Be Victimized "Things that were abusive in the old administration have now become streamlined."

Public Schools Were Never Just For The Kids Noliwe Rooks, author of the new book "Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public School," explains how education and big business have always gone hand-in-hand.

Feds Target Parents of Immigrant Children, Build Kid-Sized Pipeline to Detention Centers Recent changes in immigration policy may threaten kids by taking aim at parents and close relatives.

As Men Do More Unpaid Work, Policies Lag Behind A global fatherhood advocacy group pushes for policies that help men help their families

Nobel Winner Proves Early Child Care Makes a Massive Difference

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