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Disengaged voters (defined in various ways, but basically – folks who don’t vote regularly and pay less attention to politics) drove most of the movement away from Democrats from 2020 to 2024 – this is a trend that’s been ongoing since 2012.

GOP budget bill is not merely a transfer of wealth from poor to rich. It's also in many ways a transfer of wealth from young to old, and from future to past. That's because many of the “pay-fors” in this bill disproportionately hurt babies and children wapo.st/4dj7bNY

Pronatalism

I wrote about the all-important — but hard to measure, and even harder to define — idea in child care: quality vox.com/child-care/413…

In my Substack today I take a cold, hard look at the Democrats' odds of having a federal trifecta anytime soon -- especially staring down a post-2030 reapportionment that will shift serious power to the GOP -- and what that means for a family policy strategy.

And seriously, if you haven't sat with the implications of the projected reapportionment that will come into effect starting with the 2032 elections, you should:

Official CBO analysis confirms the obvious: House Republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice. It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.

Work requirements at the state level have been a clear failure, unless the goal is simply to kick people off Medicaid In which case, they've been a ringing success thebulwark.com/p/the-gops-big…

"we're not cutting this program we're just increasing the paperwork requirements higher and higher until no one can access it" is really the worst of all possible worlds

Father of five arrested at his citizenship hearing due to a missing form from 10 years ago. His wife’s fifth baby is due in three months and he was their sole breadwinner mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mi…

Over at the place that cannot be named, I have a new essay arguing that many well-paying blue-collar jobs basically require a breadwinner/homemaker division of labor if the couple has young children.

The standard response to the existence of such jobs is to bemoan the impact on the gender pay gap. I suggest a different approach: let's socially and culturally support the homemakers that make them possible. You can read more here: thehomefront.substack.com/p/the-other-gr…

Work requirements are welfare for Deloitte.