[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. 2 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on the role that care and caregiving could play in the 2020 election. Political pundits have long insisted that care issues like childcare, elder care and paid and unpaid caregiving are not “bread and butter” economic issues that move voters or swing elections. Will that change in this unprecedented time of COVID-19? Are voters beginning to see that care work is no longer just “women’s work,” but central to a functioning economy? And what difference could that make on Nov. 3?

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Roselyn Miller
Better Life Lab policy analyst and author of The Bipartisan Case for Caregiving.

Amanda Brown Lierman
Managing Director, Supermajority, a progressive, membership-based organization that trains women to become effective advocates to build an equitable future for all women, and former political and organizing director for the Democratic National Committee.

Abby McCloskey
An economist, founder of McCloskey Policy LLC who has advised multiple presidential campaigns, including Howard Schultz, Jeb Bush and Rick Perry. She is a member of the AEI-Brookings Bipartisan working group on paid leave.