Jena McGregor is a Forbes senior editor who covers the future of work, leadership strategy, workplace trends and careers. She joined Forbes in October 2021 and is based in Atlanta.
This week’s Future of Work newsletter spotlights a new index tracking the impact of child care costs, interviews Reshma Saujani about her campaign to make child care an election issue and shares the latest headlines.' Future of Work newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief human resources officers and other talent managers on disruptive technologies, managing the workforce and trends in the remote work debate.
Meanwhile, Reshma Saujani, who cofounded the organization Moms First, has been consistently campaigning to make the issue of child care more of a theme in this year’s presidential election, pushing candidates on both sides to better address a topic that’s one of the rare areas of agreement across party lines.
Then I got the opportunity to ask a question at . … His people were informed of the kinds of questions he might get asked. … He was not prepared. He kind of botches the answer, and it becomes one of theof this election cycle. What was remarkable after that … was every single network was talking and debating about how to fix child care. Not just about his answer, but how do you fix child care?
Child care as a business model is broken. You have a market issue and a supply issue. The government, quite frankly, with some help from the private sector, is the only one that can actually offer the subsidy to make it affordable for parents.It's no secret, whether it’s paid leave or child care, businesses have often been an impediment to passing legislation. So that has to change. That’s a lot of the work we’ve done at Moms First—really making it clear that it’s an economic issue.
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