Jessica Calarco
sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Jessica Calarco is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the author of “Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net.”
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Jessica Calarco
The U.S. has a long history of judging food choices, especially those of the poor.
$5,000 is a start — but it’s not nearly enough.
The gutting of Head Start would force vulnerable people to labor in more difficult or demeaning conditions for the benefit of the privileged.
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
The U.S. already depends on the unpaid labor of women to shore up its safety net. That’s only going to get worse now.
