Author name: Marianne

In 2016, there were two candidates telling people their pain was legitimate and their rage was valid – that the system indeed had been rigged against them. They were Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Only one of them, however, wanted to do something about it. The other mainly sought to harness all that anger for […]

As our nation teetered on the brink of a government shutdown, a quieter yet profound closure unfolded — the cessation of federal funding for child care. Last year, in a historic move, $24 billion was earmarked to bolster child care, a sector that sustains our working families. The abrupt end to this funding, now termed