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Building the Future of the Care Economy

July 21, 2025

The United States faces a care crisis. Too many working families lack safe, high-quality, and reliable childcare, while many more are priced out altogether. These challenges follow families and individuals into adulthood and beyond. All the while, private equity and corporate interests squeeze the childcare and long-term care markets in search of profits while workers suffer from a lack of bargaining power to increase wages and training. 

Our care work focuses on addressing gaps in care through stable, long-term public investments that center worker equity and quality care outcomes while resisting private profit motives that undermine both.  

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On July 21, 2025 the Roosevelt Institute brought together care experts to discuss creative policy solutions to the ongoing childcare crisis

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