If infrastructure is all that enables commerce and prosperity and our economy to function,

what could be more fundamental than caregiving? Child access to child care, access to elder

care, support for people with disabilities? That is essential infrastructure that we've never,

ever invested in, which is why we have all these black and brown women who are working in jobs where

they can't survive, trying to live off of $17,000 a year without health care. The people who are

currently doing it are exploited. They're predominantly women of color, turned over sky high in this

industry because it's so brutally difficult. So what is the plan to transition from the current

economy to the caring economy? Our big vision is something we call universal family care. One day

we should have a fund that we all contribute to that we can all benefit from that helps us pay

for child care, long-term care, and paid family leave. Basically everything we need to take care

of our families while we're working across the lifespan. It's like a new version of social security.

It is exactly!

This week on Yang speaks, we have the incredible founder and visionary and activist someone

I admire so much on so many levels. Igen Poo and we're going to be talking about Georgia in part

because her organization is getting out voters right now in Georgia as we speak. Thrilled for this

conversation. In addition, we're going to talk about Yang's potential in the cabinet. You don't

want to miss this tune in. Andrew, if you were Secretary of Labor, what would you do? I'll

tie that to if someone else is Secretary of Labor. What should they be doing? What can they be doing?

There is so much you can do out of the Department of Labor. It's very exciting and fun. I hope

that the next Labor Secretary takes full advantage of our needs and capacities to hopefully help dig

us out of this hole. We are down over 10 million jobs at least that we know of. An economist say that

42% of the jobs that we've lost will never return. The Department of Labor spends billions of

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