Gertrude (Trudy) Schaffner Goldberg

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

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is is professor emerita of social work and social policy at Adelphi University. A long-time social activist, she is co-founder and chair of the National Jobs for All Coalit

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Issue 332

The Living New Deal

Events to celebrate New Deal achievements and advocate a "New New Deal" based on Depression-era job-creation programs.

Gertrude (Trudy) Schaffner Goldberg Sep 1, 2017