The problem of child care

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Melissa Boteach of the National Women's Law Center joins Matt to have a discussion about the role of child care in the economy, which has been "made visible" in the Covid-19 pandemic, and exposed the economically marginalized care workers who perform this essential work in an industry on the verge of collapse. Resources: House Hearing on Child Care During COVID-19 (Feb. 19, 2021) "How COVID-19 Relief for the Care Economy Fell Short in 2020" by Julie Kashen (Jan. 27, 2021) "The COVID Relief Package Must Include Much-Needed Tax Credit Expansions for Women & Families" by Kathryn Menefee (Feb. 16, 2021) "Undervalued: A Brief History of Women's Care Work and Child Care Policy in the United States" by Julie Vogtman (2017) Guest: Melissa Boteach (@mboteach), Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning, National Women's Law Center Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my guest today Melissa Boceach is somebody who I have known for a long time.
0:05.2	She's been working on issues of poverty and family life and income security and childcare,
0:12.0	things like that.
0:13.3	So I caught up with her to talk about the Child Allowance Plan that Joe Biden is pushing
0:18.8	in his COVID relief bill about Mitt Romney's slightly different, more conservative approach
0:24.3	to this, but also about childcare, both as an immediate crisis and as a kind of a long-term
0:29.9	question for our labor market and our economy.
0:32.8	There's a lot of different moving pieces to this, but there's a really good conversation
0:36.3	I learned a lot and I think you will too.
0:38.2	Hello, welcome to another episode of Weets on the Box, a media podcast network on
0:50.3	Matthew Eglaceus.
0:51.3	I'm here today with Melissa Boceach, she is the vice president for income security and
0:56.3	childcare slash early learning at the National Women's Law Center.
1:00.3	Great guest, a great thinker on a number of issues.
1:03.6	Welcome to the show, Melissa.
1:05.2	Thank you so much for having me.
1:07.1	So you know, there is a COVID relief bill working its way through Congress.
1:12.8	I mean, I think this has been discussed a lot through the lens of the virus in public health.
1:17.9	It's been discussed a lot through the lens of physical stimulus and labor market conditions.
1:23.8	But there is a couple big, just sort of ideas in your wheelhouse here that I think have
1:30.1	kind of hitched a ride with the COVID relief bill, basically because they're good ideas.
1:37.4	And one of them is a significant increase in sort of cash financial benefits to parents
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