[ONLINE] – Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society across race, class and gender. We can’t go back.  So what will it take to create a fairer, healthier future of work and family? That’s what we explore on Crisis Conversations – Live from the Better Life Lab. Join us on Zoom to share stories, ask questions and make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better, more equitable new normal.

Join us on Friday, Oct. 23 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on parents, COVID and political action. The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to supporting working families. Unlike other advanced economies, we offer no national public paid family leave, no publicly supported universal childcare, no requirements that employers offer flexible work and schedule control. The list goes on. Researchers and advocates have long lamented we don’t have these policies because the constituents who need them most – parents – are too stressed and busy to organize and demand them. Has COVID-19 changed that?

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Alissa Quart
Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author most recently of Daycare slots for babies are vanishing. Now their parents can’t work

Tamara Mose
Sociology professor at Brooklyn College, director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the American Sociological Association and author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community

Dasja Reed
Single parent and member of Strolling Thunder 

Justin Ruben
Parent and co-founder of ParentsTogether

Jennifer Beall Saxton
Parent, Founder and CEO of Tot Squad