Governance
Mexico Lowers Age of Social Security for Women
Extending its noncontributory pension benefit, Mexico’s new program will give more spending money to women in their early 60s.
Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Understanding the Care Economy
Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.
Dreaming Big
A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.
Child Care Manifesto
What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?
The Value of Valuation
Assigning a market value to non-market work can be risky, but it calls attention to the economic contributions of unpaid care.
Automatic Healthcare?
Regulations on “ethical” AI may fail to address larger concerns about the automation of care.
Demanda por el reconocimiento del cuidado como Derecho Humano
La sociedad civil se pronuncia sobre la petición del gobierno argentino a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, que escuchará los argumentos del caso esta semana en el tribunal de San José, Costa Rica.
Demanding Care as a Human Right
Civil society weighs in on the Argentine government’s petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which will hear arguments in the case this week at the tribunal in San José, Costa Rica.
Glass Walls and Finance Capital
Alicia Girón’s open-access book Economía de la vida offers a comparative perspective on the ways that financialized capitalism has shaped the care economy.
Little Kids vs. Big Business
Current U.S. Congressional efforts to expand the Child Tax Credit offer telling insights into the partisan divide.
Bargain Hunting: Seeking Sustainable Care in a Globalized World
A recent book reckons with the “moral bargain” that provides protections for some at the expense of others.