How will America’s children remember events of 2021?

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How will America’s children remember events of 2021?

Fri, 01/29/2021 - 01:33
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This can be the year we scale up solutions that embrace a culture of health and expand family prosperity. Access to a good job, education, health and whole-family well-being are the foundations of family prosperity – as is an inclusive and expansive definition of family that honors the multitude of ways in which we live and care for one another. Well before the pandemic hit, we needed to do better for all families. Our nation continues to perpetuate systemic disparities in health and wealth along race and gender lines, intensifying at their intersections. This can be seen in the devastating – and disproportionate – blow COVID-19 has dealt to working women forced to leave the workforce at record rates, often due to the child care crisis – with mothers of color most affected. One of the greatest barriers to family prosperity is the false narrative of “rugged individualism” and meritocracy. As a nation, we must come to the realization that the well-being of families depends on our…

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