Mara Kardas-Nelson, Lin Nelson, and Anne Fischel

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

Mara Kardas-Nelson is a freelance journalist focusing on environmental and occupational health, infectious disease, and women’s health. She is the editor of the blog New Solutions: The Drawing Board a

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Issue 288

Bankruptcy as Corporate Makeover

ASARCO demonstrates how to evade environmental responsibility.

Mara Kardas-Nelson, Lin Nelson, and Anne Fischel May 1, 2010