Why does the U.S. hate families? (with Anne-Marie Slaughter and Katie Hamm)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For all our talk about family values, the U.S. is actually the worst place to raise a family in the developed world. Anne-Marie Slaughter and Katie Hamm join Nick and Jessyn to explain how our family policies got stuck in the last century, and what we should do about it. Anne-Marie Slaughter is the President and CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age. She is also a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, and from 2009-2011 she served as director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State—the first woman to hold that position. Twitter: @SlaughterAM Katie Hamm is the Vice President for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, where she leads CAP’s work on policies impacting young children from birth to five. Twitter: @DCHammslice Kristine Reeves is a member of the Washington House of Representatives representing the 30th legislative district. She is also the Director of Economic Development for the Military and Defense sector for the state of Washington. Twitter: @KMReevesWA Further reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/reports/2017/09/07/438428/blueprint-child-care-reform/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/news/2017/10/31/441825/the-cost-of-inaction-on-universal-preschool/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/upshot/americans-love-families-american-policies-dont.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fclaire-cain-miller

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0:59.2	We live in a country where the vast majority of young children have all available parents working.
1:08.0	My husband and I, last year alone, paid more than $35,000 in child care costs for our two kids.
1:13.0	One third of unemployed women in the U.S.
1:16.0	left the workforce because of caregiving responsibilities.
1:19.5	We're not where we should be because society has not made nearly the changes that society needs to make.
1:26.5	Virtually all of our peer nations handled this better than we do.
1:31.2	If people are particularly women are stepping out of the workforce,
1:35.2	that's money that's not being spent in local communities. From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics,
1:50.0	with Nick Hanauer, a conversation about how capitalism actually works. I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
2:05.0	And I'm Jessin Farrell, Senior Vice President at Civic Ventures and Mother of Three
2:11.1	Kids. and Mother of three kids.
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