Laura Valle-Gutierrez

Americans spent more this year on Halloween - & Trump’s tariffs are hitting Thanksgiving too.

Expect to spend 10% more thanks to economic chaos. That’s 3x the rate of overall inflation!

Our new analysis w/ @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org shows how Trump's policies are ruining Thanksgiving.

A Pricier Plate: Thanksgiving Costs Climb Nearly 10% This Year As families across the country prepare to carve turkey and watch football, new analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT

🦃 NEW: Thanksgiving dinner is up 10% this year — more than 3x overall inflation.

Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up.

Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org

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The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

And, when mom’s employment suffers, families suffer as two-thirds of moms are the main or co-breadwinner for their household tcf.org/content/repo... 4/4

Moreover, declining employment in the child care sector, which shed 3,000 jobs in September, only increases the risk of more moms out of the workforce.
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Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Women Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Women

For women over 20 years old, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate reached 4.2 percent, a height it hadn’t reached since October 2021. 2/
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We finally got jobs data from September, and there are some warning signs for the women in the economy. Black women’s unemployment has reached 7.5 percent. Black women’s unemployment is the canary in the coal mine, currently sitting 4 percentage points higher than white men’s unemployment.
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Native women are paid 41 cents for each dollar that white men are paid, one of the starkest gender pay gaps in the U.S.

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

An American economy that prioritizes care gives workers the time they need to care for themselves and their families without risking their job or their paycheck. Read @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org’s new report to learn more: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative #PaidLeaveForAll

“The Care Imperative: Why Investing in Care Grows America’s Economy.” “A new report from The Century Foundation, Caring Across Generations, and Care Can’t Wait offers a vision for care as a catalyst for economic growth.” A picture shows a group of people of various ages, some using mobility aids.

Investments in care policies, including those that support child care, paid leave, aging and disability care, and good jobs for care workers ensure that the government is responsive to people’s basic needs.

New from TCF and @caringacross.org: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible and within reach. My new report for @tcfdotorg.bsky.social with @caringacross.org details how substantive investments in the care economy support families and catalyze economic growth. #CareCantWait go.tcf.org/TheCareImper...

The Trump administration made it possible for ICE to terrorize children and educators. As @jackiemader.bsky.social reported for @hechingerreport.org earlier this year, ICE was banned from entering child care programs and schools until DHS issued a new directive
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Free Child Care Would Help Families Afford a Better Life Across the country, no matter what background, faith, or color, people are working hard to provide for their families. But as this work has made America

Making AI slop videos and making "your mom" jokes isn't going to lower the cost of child care for millions of parents trying to make ends meet. But free child care would—read more about it from TCF's @kashenj.bsky.social here: tcf.org/content/comm...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

America’s child care crisis isn’t a problem that will go away on its own. Instead of solutions, Trump and Congressional Republicans passed a megabill with child care tax updates too small to fundamentally change how families are experiencing the child care crisis.

Learn more: go.tcf.org/crisis

"The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid" Book Launch Event Award-winning researcher, speaker, and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyemen is releasing her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and

Join us for an evening with award-winning researcher and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman as she launches her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.

📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC
📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM
🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow

The Tri-Share Model Is Not a Solution to the Child Care Crisis Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called child care a “textbook example of a broken market.” The problems plaguing this broken market were aptly

State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...

Job losses were particularly acute in professional/business services, the federal govt, and wholesale trade, but there have also been sustained losses over recent months in manufacturing, construction, and mining, an indication that Trump's blue-collar renaissance is clearly not happening.
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Americans Wanted a Cost of Living Warrior. Trump Is the Opposite Americans are increasingly concerned with cost of living issues. They voted for Donald Trump to help, but he's done the opposite.

This morning, we released an alarming new report detailing the depths of Americans’ financial distress, based on a June survey of 2,000 voters with Morning Consult.

TCF President Julie Margetta Morgan (@jmargetta.bsky.social) explains in a new op-ed in @rollingstone.com.

“Child care’s been rising for about 30 years faster than inflation.

The reality is the price of providing good child care is more than a lot of parents can pay. We've solved this in other sectors, like in education. That's what we need to be doing for child care, too.” – @kashenj.bsky.social

Raising a Family Is Increasingly Expensive. The Child Care for Working Families Act Would Help. Imagine families having reliable, stable child care options that met their needs—affordable, convenient, with no wait list—and ensured their children were

Child care is too expensive. It doesn’t have to be. The child care for working families act was introduced today. It lowers costs for families, ensures early educators are paid a living wage, and builds up the childcare sector.

Read @kashenj.bsky.social latest to lesrn more

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HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

Being a mom has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, in part because I have had resources and support systems to manage the work. We can pass public policies to make motherhood a more affordable and enjoyable option for all women who want kids. We just have to decide to do it!

My annotation of the new distributional analysis from the Congressional Budget Office of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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BREAKING: CBO has released its final numbers on the plan House Republicans are pushing through Congress.

If this passes:
—$3.7 trillion in revenue LOST
—$2.4 trillion added to the debt
—10.9 million people will lose insurance by 2034

All to give tax breaks to the rich.

CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House.
- Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years
- Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion
- Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years
- Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034
Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

What would help families have more babies? Here's what readers said PBS News asked readers to share their thoughts on having children and incentivizing childbirth — and more than 900 people responded. Here's what they said.

Families know what they need! PBS spoke to more than 1,000 readers about what would encourage them to have more babies. Readers want affordable child care, a lower cost of living, and access to reproductive health care. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Women are out here doing $1 TRILLION in unpaid caregiving annually and Republicans are like....get to work. But also have babies. The cognitive dissonance is WILD. nationalpartnership.org/americans-un...

This is a very helpful chart 👇

Congressional Republicans are hellbent on taking away health care and food assistance from poor and desperate families in order to give tax cuts to their rich friends and donors who don't need it.

Tell Congress to put families over billionaires here: bit.ly/3MOBGyT

A testament to how horrible this bill was. A huge tax giveaway to billionaires paid for by cuts to health care and food assistance to kids and low-income families, that would also balloon the deficit.