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America Dissected

Ai-Jen Poo Needs us to Care about Carers

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Americans work inside our homes–as carers and cleaners–taking care of the people and places we value most. Though they do the most important work in our lives, work that we would only entrust to few others, they are some of the most marginalized workers in our economy–and the work they do continues to be undervalued and underappreciated. Abdul breaks down the consequences of that for our society. Then he speaks with Ai-Jen Poo, co-founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0

A Trump-appointed judge struck down the CDC's mass mandate on public transit, which the

0:11.4

Biden administration is now appealing.

0:13.5

The CDC launched a new public health forecasting center to get ahead of the next potential

0:16.8

pandemic before it infects millions.

0:19.6

And Tucker Carlson released a documentary on plummeting testosterone rates, encouraging

0:23.6

his viewers, and I can't make this up, to tell their testicles, yep, I said that.

0:28.3

This is America Dissective.

0:29.3

From your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

0:31.3

I want you to think about the people you care about most, the people you'd give anything

0:41.1

for, partners and parents, close friends or children.

0:44.7

Now if one of them were sick or injured or was diagnosed with a life-altering, debilitating

0:48.8

disease, what would you want for them?

0:51.3

You'd want them to have the best around the clock care available.

0:53.3

You'd want every detail thought through and managed.

0:56.5

You'd want them to have every pain and discomfort attended to and for their dignity to be protected

1:00.3

even as they needed support to do the most intimate things.

1:03.1

If you could, you probably care for them yourself.

1:05.7

It's that important.

1:07.5

But then, caring can be a 24-hour job, and each of us has other responsibilities, other

1:12.1

people we have to care for, work we have to get done.

1:15.4

For millions of people, this isn't a hypothetical dilemma.

1:18.2

It's their everyday life.

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