Join us for an evening with award-winning researcher and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman as she launches her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid. 📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC 📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM 🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow

State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...

Job losses were particularly acute in professional/business services, the federal govt, and wholesale trade, but there have also been sustained losses over recent months in manufacturing, construction, and mining, an indication that Trump's blue-collar renaissance is clearly not happening. #EconSky

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This morning, we released an alarming new report detailing the depths of Americans’ financial distress, based on a June survey of 2,000 voters with Morning Consult. TCF President Julie Margetta Morgan (@jmargetta.bsky.social) explains in a new op-ed in @rollingstone.com.

“Child care’s been rising for about 30 years faster than inflation. The reality is the price of providing good child care is more than a lot of parents can pay. We've solved this in other sectors, like in education. That's what we need to be doing for child care, too.” – @kashenj.bsky.social

Child care is too expensive. It doesn’t have to be. The child care for working families act was introduced today. It lowers costs for families, ensures early educators are paid a living wage, and builds up the childcare sector. Read @kashenj.bsky.social latest to lesrn more tcf.org/content/comm...

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

Being a mom has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, in part because I have had resources and support systems to manage the work. We can pass public policies to make motherhood a more affordable and enjoyable option for all women who want kids. We just have to decide to do it!

My annotation of the new distributional analysis from the Congressional Budget Office of the One Big Beautiful Bill. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

BREAKING: CBO has released its final numbers on the plan House Republicans are pushing through Congress. If this passes: —$3.7 trillion in revenue LOST —$2.4 trillion added to the debt —10.9 million people will lose insurance by 2034 All to give tax breaks to the rich.

CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Families know what they need! PBS spoke to more than 1,000 readers about what would encourage them to have more babies. Readers want affordable child care, a lower cost of living, and access to reproductive health care. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Women are out here doing $1 TRILLION in unpaid caregiving annually and Republicans are like....get to work. But also have babies. The cognitive dissonance is WILD. nationalpartnership.org/americans-un...

This is a very helpful chart 👇 Congressional Republicans are hellbent on taking away health care and food assistance from poor and desperate families in order to give tax cuts to their rich friends and donors who don't need it. Tell Congress to put families over billionaires here: bit.ly/3MOBGyT

A testament to how horrible this bill was. A huge tax giveaway to billionaires paid for by cuts to health care and food assistance to kids and low-income families, that would also balloon the deficit.

New report from @childcareaware.bsky.social shows #childcare prices up by 29% since 2020. Response from R's: Corporate tax breaks! Motherhood Medals! What families really need: 👉reliable, stable child care options that meet their needs --convenient options, with no commute, no wait list.

None of these 17 million kids from low-income families will get a dime of the Republicans’ proposed increase in the #CTC as Kris Cox explains here ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kris...

The New York Times recently reported on Trump admin efforts to boost the U.S. birth rate—from a $5,000 “baby bonus” to a “National Medal of Motherhood.” In her latest piece, TCF Senior Fellow Gayle Goldin (@gaylegoldin.bsky.social) explains what we need instead: go.tcf.org/profamily

Babies, not billionaires! 🤝💖 Today is Day Without Childcare, and we're joining partners, providers and parents to highlight the true cost of care and demand funding for a 21st-century #childcare system that works for working families. Join us and learn more www.DayWithoutChildcare.org

Yes to all of this. "Republicans have finally noticed that American motherhood is in crisis. But they still don’t understand — or don’t want to admit — that their policy choices have hurt moms." -- @whipkclark.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

My new piece with @kashenj.bsky.social: President Trump's cuts to child care departments, staff, and budgets will make it more challenging for parents to find and afford child care, make children less safe, and threaten providers’ ability to continue operating their programs. tcf.org/content/comm...

As Mother's Day approaches, I’m thinking about the things that would truly celebrate moms: paid leave, higher minimum wage, child care for all. Grateful to @gaylegoldin.bsky.social at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social for laying this out in her piece.

New from Ruth Friedman: "A robustly funded and supported Head Start program benefits communities across the country. [Cutting Head Start] would setback families, spur job loss, make child care and pre-K less available, and strain state budgets." tcf.org/content/comm...

“Instead of focusing federal policy on procreation, we should be focusing on family-sustaining policies that create meaningful change in people’s lives, no matter what that family looks like.” TCF’s @gaylegoldin.bsky.social on why coercive pronatalist incentives fail women and families.

I shared with @salonnewsroom.bsky.social “The fact that the [Trump] administration jumped straight to motherhood medals & not something like paid leave or child care solutions shows just how out of touch they are w/what parents in America are experiencing right now.” www.salon.com/2025/05/04/w...

Trump's budget cuts programs that help student parents afford child care & help families pay heating bills, while funneling billions more to mass deportations that send people to gulags without due process. Trump doesn't care about improving the lives of US families www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

As federal dollars for Head Start slow, rural parents left without other options hechingerreport.org/as-federal-d...

New indicators of a slowing economy with GDP contracting by 0.3 percent in Q1 according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is just the latest of many warning signs showing the damage that Trump has done to the U.S. economy in just 100 days tcf.org/content/comm...

I just said government should prevent crises, not just respond to them. It sure as hell shouldn’t create them as this admin has done. From Laura Valle-Gutierrez @lfevalle.bsky.social & Andrew Stettner @aimstettner.bsky.social

States are leading the way on paid leave. My new commentary with @rwest817.bsky.social explores how Pennsylvanians can expand coverage to millions of workers this year by voting to invest in a public paid leave program (instead of the so-called “benefits savings accounts” tech companies love)

My new piece highlights 5 ways Trump has harmed the well-being and financial security of families in the past 100 days. Read it here: tcf.org/content/comm...

This story right here…the assault on the federal workforce impacts everyone. I’m grateful to current and former employees who are continuing to speak up about the trauma they are facing and the Administration’s callous disregard of longstanding policy. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

The Trump admin’s $5k “baby bonus” is a drop in the bucket compared to the structural change needed to lower costs. “The bottom line is that if you want to solve the problem of helping people to want to have more babies, there are a lot of other things you need to solve for.” – @kashenj.bsky.social

Immigrant women are the cornerstone of our care workforce. From child care to aging and disability care, they hold families together — but Trump’s anti-immigration policies are pushing them to the brink. 

”Only transformative public investment ensures all Americans can find, choose, & afford child care that meets their families’ needs.” @kashenj.bsky.social & Ruth Friedman explain how @warren.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov's bill could lower child care prices for families tcf.org/content/comm...

“Kudos to Harvard for standing up, calling out the illegal and harmful nature of the demands and pointing out that the stated intent of those demands is BS.” Julie doesn’t mince words arguing students, alumni, faculty and city leaders—pressure from the middle—helps universities fight gov’t attacks

The Trump administration’s budgetary and staffing cuts are disrupting the distribution of federal funding to child care programs. In Washington, 72 Head Start providers just lost their jobs and more than 400 children lost child care. www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/e...

“Immigration is not just a cornerstone of the American dream: it is also critical for sustaining economic growth. Threats to immigrant workers will only further destabilize workers’ lives, and exacerbate care worker shortages across the country.”

New to Bluesky? Here's a thread of starter packs for those interested in economic policy, care policy, independent journalism, and authoritarianism studies. 🧵 (1/14)

Great chatting with Megan Pauly @vpm.org about continued threats to the nation's children and the people who care for them. “These are vulnerable families who, without these kinds of supports, are made even more vulnerable." www.vpm.org/news/2025-04...

"This is an industry that says that it can’t recruit the workers it needs...at the same time, wages have been so stubbornly low." TCF research by @lfevalle.bsky.social featured in today's NYT on the on the decline in labor standards in the construction industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/m...

So excited to have Julie joining TCF as our next President! I'm so looking forward to having leadership with a proven record of fighting corporate abuse and working to lower costs for families.

Join us for "ACA@15: Lessons for Health Reform" on Tuesday, March 25! Livestream starts at 1:55 PM ET: bit.ly/ACA15live The event will feature a keynote from @pelosi.house.gov, video remarks from @barackobama.bsky.social, and insights from key leaders behind the Affordable Care Act.

“We need to stop DIYing child care. We need to actually have structural answers instead of just relying on every family for themselves.” TCF's Julie Kashen (@kashenj.bsky.social) sits down with @wamu.org to discuss parenting and the economy. #EqualPayDay the1a.org/segments/the...

The Women’s Bureau has, for a century, documented hardships for women at work and the result has been a better workplace for everyone. If Republicans and Trump have their way, it will cease to exist. A cruel irony as we mark #EqualPayDay, via @gaylegoldin.bsky.social.

Upheaval at Federal Agencies Has Fed Parents Scrambling to Address Gaps in Childcare The parents are not ok. @lfevalle.bsky.social explains that telework is not a child care solution but it does save parents time and create needed flexibility. medium.com/seventhirty-...

Some new and interesting research on this if you want to learn more: @tcfdotorg.bsky.social's @lfevalle.bsky.social on how telework has helped moms stay working: tcf.org/content/comm...

My new piece for @tcfdotorg.bsky.social digs into the ways tariffs on Canada and Mexico can harm the child care sector, which is already in a precarious position amidst high costs for families and low wages for early educators that have led to staffing shortages. tcf.org/content/comm...