This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.

‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil... via @19thnews.org

Now that Zohran Mamdani won, how much of his agenda will he be able to accomplish? Here's my back-of-the-envelope estimation of what he can feasibly achieve and how. Short version: I actually think he can get a lot of it done.

@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov Making sure you saw this - in Chicago

The taking of neighbors in communities around the country is so horrific. And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom? Enraging is too weak a word to describe this. #Momsky activate.

Republicans were already gutting Head Start programs across the country. Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families. All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires. apnews.com/article/head...

Making AI slop videos and making "your mom" jokes isn't going to lower the cost of child care for millions of parents trying to make ends meet. But free child care would—read more about it from TCF's @kashenj.bsky.social here: tcf.org/content/comm...

After WWII, the U.S. ended universal child care so women would return to caregiving and soldiers could take their jobs. Now there's a new effort to get women out of the workplace. "I am not on board with going backwards,” says @kashenj.bsky.social in @whyy.org interview whyy.org/episodes/wor...

What would the ideal child care infrastructure in America look like? A system that’s affordable, accessible, and builds community. TCF’s @kashenj.bsky.social in conversation with @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social of @momsrising.org. Full episode ➡️ go.tcf.org/momsrising Julie's latest ➡️ go.tcf.org/ccwfa

Federal pandemica-era investments showed states what is possible when they invest in child care. Now, @kashenj.bsky.social says, states including CT, NM, NY, OR, and VT are working to build out their child care infrastructure. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

📢 We’re partnering with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social for the DC launch of Anna Gifty's (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) new book, “The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.”

Today, the Census Bureau released new data that show that in 2024, 13.4% of U.S. children under 18—9.7 million children—lived in poverty TCF's Rachel West and Julie Kashen analyze these data and explore policies to end child poverty: go.tcf.org/childpoverty

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

Great job @govmlg.bsky.social and team - continuing to build on #NewMexico's #childcare successes. Free child care in NM that comes with investments in real choices and early educator wages. Leading the way!

My polling data analysis w/ @kashenj.bsky.social mentioned in @bloomberg.com: “Women are now experiencing more economic anxiety than men: Though both are struggling with rising costs, women are more likely to say they are taking on debt to cover the basics and falling behind on monthly bills.”

Last month's @tcfdotorg.bsky.social report showed Americans struggling financially: skipping meals to save $, paying bills on credit cards, tapping into savings to make ends meet. ‪Now, @gaylegoldin.bsky.social and I find these issues disproportionately impact women 🧵(1/4) bsky.app/profile/tcfd...

The American Dream has a gender gap. Recent Morning Consult polling analyzed by TCF’s Gayle Goldin and Julie Kashen shows striking differences in how women and men are experiencing America’s affordability crisis. Learn more: go.tcf.org/gendergap @gaylegoldin.bsky.social @kashenj.bsky.social

“What families need is reliable, stable child care options that meet their needs — affordable, convenient, with no wait list. The big Republican bill provides none of that.” @kashenj.bsky.social pulls no punches in new op ed for The Hill thehill.com/opinion/fina...

Welcome!!!!

🚨 New resource for care advocates: Today TCF, @npwf.bsky.social, and @caringacross.org launched the Care Research Hub — a one-stop shop for the latest research on child care, paid leave, aging & disability care, and good jobs for care workers. Learn more: go.tcf.org/carehub

The Republican megabill, even with its various tax credits and child accounts included, will make it much more difficult and costly to raise a family and care for each other in America. @kashenj.bsky.social and I explain in our new commentary. tcf.org/content/comm...

Home care workers are now getting an official kick in the butt-they will no longer be guaranteed minimum wage or overtime protections. Evelyn Coke won a 2007 court case that laid a legal foundation for such guarantees. Keep her face in mind and push back. #care tinyurl.com/5xs5ehxk

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

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

Measles outbreaks threaten children's health and the operation of child care programs: “Destabilizing the enrollment of children in child care can quickly lead to programs closing their doors and child care broadly becoming unavailable to a community,” says @tcfdotorg.bsky.social's Ruth Friedman

This Admin is stripping services from children & families. @pattymurray.bsky.social & @bobbyscott.house.gov know how critical it is to invest in our kids + families - that’s why they just reintro’ed the Child Care for Working Families Act. www.americanprogress.org/article/fact...

Imagine families having reliable, stable child care options that met their needs—affordable, convenient, no wait list—and ensured their children were safe, healthy & learning. TCF’s Julie Kashen (@kashenj.bsky.social) breaks down the Child Care for Working Families Act (CCWFA): go.tcf.org/ccwfa

Yesterday @murray.senate.gov, @bobbyscott.house.gov, and other champions re-introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act. I wrote about why we need this type of transformative #childcare policy now more than ever: tcf.org/content/comm...

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...

When we arrest, detain, and deport immigrants, child care centers shut down and hire fewer workers This is awful for child care workers of course, but it also reduces the employment of US-born mothers with young kids, who work fewer hours because of greater child care responsibilities

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...

The Trump administration is launching a whole of government attack on immigrants and foundational pathways to the middle class likeHead Start, Title X family-planning clinics, career and technical education programs, with more agencies expected to roll out similar announcements in the coming days. 🧵

A must read: 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...

Will also destroy some parents' ability to earn.

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!

"These challenges make it so hard to be a mom in America, and it shouldn't be this hard. We can, if we have the public will, pass public policies—child care, paid leave, paid sick days, care for older adults, too—that can make such a difference in moms' lives." — @kashenj.bsky.social

And—they’re willfully killing women.

Americans’ unpaid caregiving is worth more than $1.1 trillion annually – and women are doing almost two-thirds of the work. #CareCantWait nationalpartnership.org/if-americans...

Erasing "women" from federal agency documents, eliminating policies that address historic discrimination against women & making it less safe to be pregnant:Trump's misogyny hurts women and families every day. @chiquitabl.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social #HannahKatch www.salon.com/2025/06/22/h...

the thing that is not news to anyone with a child under the age of 5: the cost of child care is now rivaling home costs. 19thnews.org/2025/06/chil... via @19thnews.org @kashenj.bsky.social @annehedgepeth.bsky.social

Skrmetti is a terrifying attack on equal protection and will be used to uphold laws that treat people differently based on sex beyond gender affirming care bans. As Justice Sotomayor writes “the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational basis review”

Today, @jayapal.house.gov introduced H.R. 3971, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which would guarantee basic protections at a moment when many workers are afraid to leave their homes. Revisit our 2019 report by @kashenj.bsky.social for a deep dive into the bill: go.tcf.org/domesticworkers

Worth repeating. This is something Dems can do so much better: STOP USING THEIR LANGUAGE AND FRAMES. Yes, I am yelling. Start reframing based on reality. Please please please stop using their stupid bill name. Megabill is fine. Even GOP budget is better.

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

Why have I had The Cranberries' "Linger" on repeat in my head for days now? (sorry if you now do too)

New #inflation data shows child care prices 5.6% higher than they were a year ago. A recent report shows the avg price of child care was $13k in 2024. As child care prices continue to climb faster than overall inflation, it's time to make raising a child more affordable in America. #carecantwait

Leading on Leave from @npwf.bsky.social honors employers setting the national standard on paid family & medical leave. These companies are leading w/transparent, equitable, & inclusive leave policies. nationalpartnership.org/leading-on-l... #PaidLeaveForAll #LeadingOnLeave2025

🚨 NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social The Trump admin’s DOGE cuts have already slashed at least $3B in grants supporting women’s health, safety, and economic opportunity. Women of color will be disproportionately impacted. Read more ⬇️ 🔗 www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

@kashenj.bsky.social and I pay homage to @nonprofitaf.bsky.social and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance while we try out imagining a radically different future. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/hopeseed...