While some New Yorkers see their fortunes rise, most aren’t getting a cut, as the cost of food, rent, and other necessities climbs faster than their salaries can keep up. City Comptroller Mark Levine ...

Universal child care appeals to the party's cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country.

A series on universal childcare featuring interviews with policymakers and advocates advancing early childhood systems, public investment, and family support.

One in six parents—and more than one in four mothers—had childcare disrupt their work. Reliable care gives families more choice and economic security.

Roosevelt Institute announced its latest cohort of Good Life Residents with three emerging leaders working on housing policy %

Join us on August 6th in conversation with Arindrajit Dube to learn how corporations have set this “wage standard” and what it will take to reset the labor market toward a new, worker-focused one.

Former DOL Chief Economist Sarah Jane Glynn analyzes the complex patchwork of childcare arrangements in the US, revealing how the "broken" care infrastructure fails working parents and our economy.

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

It’s hard to imagine US public policy getting worse for children when we already fall so behind other countries. But the Republican reconciliation bill that passed on July 3 will truly make things wor...

The Good Life Agenda shows what our economy and democracy could look like if all of us had access to the building blocks of economic security and prosperity, and how we can get there.

"Here’s the struggle: We’re not making enough money."

The work and financial responsibility tied to caring for aging parents is more often than not pushed to women. Many Millenial daughters are losing their own futures.

Advancing legislation six months before the midterms is an unnecessary risk -- let's see what the 120th Congress brings

Eight years after our initial report, CAP’s 2026 analyses of U.S. licensed child care supply reveal that just fewer than half of the nation’s young children still live in child care deserts.

The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

In a new analysis, Lena Bilik and coauthors argue that the US needs bold, transformative public investments to create a universal early childhood care and education (ECE) system that can meet the need...

When Mayor Mamdani rolled out his preliminary budget, he made the trade‑offs painfully clear. New York is staring down a $5.5 billion shortfall. He said that we can either raise property taxes, or …

We don’t often talk about child care and paid parental leave in the same conversation when it comes to public policy.

Lena Bilik explores the US childcare crisis as a labor issue and—through a California case study—highlights how organizing childcare workers can build power and win universal, publicly funded childcar...

Low pay and poor working conditions are embedded in our current child care system, which relies on undervaluing the labor of women, particularly women of color.