Re-Scripting Gender, Work, Family, and Care
Challenges related to work and family are common, but relatable and holistic representation of these circumstances in entertainment media is not. Re-Scripting Gender, Work, Family, and Care advises creators and executives on how to tell rich, meaningful stories that explore these topics. We also amplify television shows, films, and online media projects with thoughtful treatments of work, family, care, and gender dynamics.
We invite you to explore our audience research, writers’ guides, speaking engagements, commentaries, and social impact partnerships supporting accurate, relatable representation on screen through research-backed insights.
Shifting Immigration Policies Are Changing Daily Life for Child Care Providers
Changing immigration policies are creating fear and uncertainty for child care providers and the families they serve. Across the country, providers say attendance is dropping and routines are being disrupted as immigrant communities navigate growing instability.
Pay Equity Fund for D.C.’s Early Educators Faces Possible Elimination
Washington, D.C.’s pay equity fund for early educators may be on the chopping block, alarming providers who say the program helped stabilize a workforce long plagued by low wages. Advocates warn cuts could worsen staffing shortages and threaten access to child care.
Inside New Mexico’s Universal Child Care
New Mexico’s new universal child care system is already reshaping daily life for families by lowering costs and expanding access. Advocates say the program offers a model for what state-level investment in care infrastructure can look like.
Child Care Is Buckling
As federal child care stabilization funding disappears, providers across the country are closing classrooms, raising tuition, or shutting down entirely. Families already struggling to find affordable care could face even fewer options.
“Getting the Golden Ticket”: Participants’ Perspectives on Lexington’s First Assembly
Civic Assemblies: A Framework for Community Colleges
A practical guide on how to host your own assembly.
Don’t START Now
A Senate apprenticeship bill is a sensible start, but falls short of the system-building investment we need.
Insights to Action: Perspectives for Early Education Policy and Systems Change
New America is partnering with the Zaentz Early Education Initiative to highlight bright spots from civic innovators across the country to spark innovative ideas, fuel evidence-based decision-making, and accelerate deeper, more sustained systems-building.