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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By Polly Cleveland Greece, Haiti, and Puerto Rico have something important in common: they are colonies. Puerto Rico started out

Polly Cleveland May 2, 2018

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The July/August issue of Dollars & Sense is out! We fell a bit behind because of our recent office

D&S Admin Jul 12, 2016

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New Issue! We are just sending this to the printers; e-subscribers will get their full-color pdfs in the next few

D&S Admin Oct 20, 2015