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Media fact sheet: Five reasons why the care economy is one of the most transformative investments of our time

Care work is the invisible foundation of every economy and society. UN Women is helping to reduce the unequal care workload on women and girls and build care systems that work for...

In East and Southern Africa, care is everyone’s business – and it’s changing lives

East and Southern Africa governments are prioritising investing in the care economy. From unpaid care work time-saving solutions in Rwanda to safer care jobs in South Africa, commu...

A new proposal wants Canada to fund care systems the same way it funds pipelines

CanWCC is pushing to get the care economy added to Canada's Major Projects Office portfolio

The care economy is aging

At 3 a.m., in the midst of labor, a doula we’ll call Renee stepped into the hallway to steady herself. She had been supporting a laboring client for nearly 12 hours. The room wa...

In Latin America, we’re not just recognizing care work – we’re rebuilding economies around it

Discover how Latin America is leading a care revolution by recognising and valuing the care work that women and girls shoulder.

What is the role of the market in a politics of care?

I have written this piece to note the importance of creating narratives when discussing the politics of care. The issue matters in its own right. Read the full article...

Cooperation

This is the fifth in a series of essays on the politics of care and economics of hope. The others are listed at the end of this Read the full article...

Οικιακή φροντίδα: Οχι πολυτέλεια, αλλά πραγματική ανάγκη

Εκθεση για τον εργασιακό κλάδο της οικιακής φροντίδας, σε μια Ευρώπη που γερνάει και εργάζεται με εντατικούς ρυθμούς.

Society

This is the sixth in a series of essays on the politics of care and economics of hope. The others are listed at the end of this essay. Read the full article...

The VC Who Bet On The Load-Bearing Walls Of The American Workforce

The $648 billion care economy has been systematically underpriced by venture capital. Kalos Ventures' Ashley Bittner bet on it early. Here's why she was right.

Visibilising The Invisible: Supreme Court Recognises The Economic Value Of Women’s Domestic Work

The court observed that it is ironic to describe a homemaker as dependent on the earning members of a household when, in reality, the household's functioning depends substantially...

Caring for ageing parents is becoming a financial nightmare in the US. Here’s what we can do | Courtney E Martin

Most families have little saved for retirement – and face unfair shame for it. It’s time to cut the bootstrap rhetoricWhat does it cost to age with dignity?It’s an urgent question...

The cost of caregiving; Cult.Fit files draft IPO papers

Data from the National Statistics Office highlights a stark gender divide in the reasons why people stay outside the labour force: men say they are pursuing studies, while women ci...

Three centuries of life and health – and the politics of care

The post that follows was written as a result of conversations between Jacqueline and me a couple of weeks ago, based on a hypothesis she Read the full article...

The Florence Report: An agenda for Europe

The Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) host a discussion of The Florence Report: Reconfiguring Europe in a fractured...

Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 1 – We need to talk about adult social care

Against everything this sector has faced: the pay, the pressure, the pandemic, the weight of end-of-life care at staffing ratios that were never adequate - a substantial number of...

The stories that lead to the politics of care

I have continued my thinking about the development of ideas that might underpin a politics of care. In truth, these are now way ahead of Read the full article...

Developing a Fair & Sustainable Economy

For the second day running, as if one video is not enough, I have a second one to offer. This is a recording from Scotland's Read the full article...

Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, we’re still paying the price for cheap care

The political economy of adaptation

This is a longer-than-usual blog post. As I note at the end, it was essentially co-developed with Jacqueline in a long session over coffee in Read the full article...

Money

This is the fourth in a series of essays on the politics of care and economics of hope. The others are listed at the end of this Read the full article...

The invisible labor of caregiving keeps systems intact

Health care systems do not function on institutional design alone; they function on the invisible labor of the people moving through them. There’s a kind of education you don’t cho...

What is economics? A logical explanation

Introduction I have spent a lot of time on this blog talking about the politics of care, and less time on the economics of hope, Read the full article...

I’ve Spent My Life Caring for Others. Who Cares for Caregivers?

Front & Center amplifies the voices of Black women navigating poverty—highlighting their struggles, resilience and dreams as they care for their families, build careers and cha...