At Deseret, I'm making the case for a baby bonus as fair and flexible help for parents and children. A “baby bonus” is an effective way to provide support to more families with fewer complications. Every family has unique needs, and flexible assistance can help parents serve the best interests of their children in their… Read More
Tag: family policy
Greedy Jobs and Genericized Jobs
I got to write about Nobellist Claudia Goldin's Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity for Deseret. The whole book is fascinating, but what I wanted to focus on were the factors that made a certain kind of work a "greedy job" (long hours, pay scales quickly with intensity) or a "genericized job" (more… Read More
Cramming Child Care into CHIPS
At Deseret, I make the case against the child care benefit in the fine print of CHIPS, which would make child care a work-administered benefit at some semiconductor plants. Making child care a work-linked benefit means repeating all the problems of the employer-linked insurance and retirement plans, and adding a more serious problem. Child care… Read More
Cushioning the Cost of Children
I like the sentiment of the call to "Make Birth Free!" but at the Institute for Family Studies, Patrick Brown and I are the wet blankets pointing out this proposal wouldn't help the most vulnerable mothers. For the poorest moms, birth is already free, at least in theory, but there are other gaps to close.… Read More