Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Dollars & Sense

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

September/October 2025

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit educational and organizing center formed to raise awareness in the United States regarding issues facing t

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D&S BLOG

Reflections on a Xenophobic Speech

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress last night was arduous, to say

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Mar 1, 2017

Issue 253

The Haiti Crisis: Aristide Is Not the Issue

One of the biggest mistakes people have made looking at the recent Haitian crisis has been to focus on the

Bill Fletcher, Jr. May 1, 2004