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

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

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

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

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Issue 339

Part 1 of this series on deindustrialization in New Hampshire used a case study of Kingsbury Machine Tool to explain

Marie Duggan Nov 1, 2018

Issue 339

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Nov 1, 2018