What would have been very nice for Mother's Day is like some affordable child care, universal

pre-K, universal school lunches, but instead we get a mommy database from Katie Brett who's like,

Happy Mother's Day. It is a database to track who's pregnant and when they're pregnant.

So the government knows exactly who is pregnant and who is not.

We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

What do an economist? A microbiologist and state representative, and a fierce advocate

or democracy have in common?

We're all suburban moms.

The far right is trying to win over suburban women by pretending they're reasonable, even relatable.

We're smarter than that.

Join us for a political journey through the eyes of suburban women, one conversation at a time.

Welcome to the Suburban Women Problem, a podcast from Red, Wine, and Blue.

Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman. I'm Jasmine Clark.

And you're listening to The Suburban Women Problem. This podcast is all about suburban women, obviously.

So I'm very excited to talk to our guests this week about his book, Disillusioned, Five Families and the Unravelling

of America Suburbs. Benjamin Harold is an award-winning journalist who's written about public

education for years, and I can't wait to hear more about how the suburbs are, as he calls

them, a Ponzi scheme. But before we get to that, how are we feeling today? What's been

in the news lately?

Well, I'm just so refreshed after Mother's Day.

It's like, you know, it's that day of respite that you need to just make it to the end of the school year.

So it's perfectly timed.

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