Childcare Workers Exit Industry Searching for Livable Wages and Benefits

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Climate Change and National Security, Choose to Change, Childcare Gap

Episode: Climate Change and National Security, Choose to Change, Childcare Gap

Nov 4, 2021 8:00 pm
13:55 mins

The pandemic has thrown the whole childcare industry into crisis—along with working parents that rely on it. More than 10,000 workers have left childcare jobs just since June. That’s a huge exodus. Marcy Whitebook, the emerita director of the Center for the Study of Childcare Employment at the University of California-Berkeley, talks about the mass departure of childcare workers and what it means for families.

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Why Climate Change is a Greater Threat to the US than China or Russia

20m

Climate change is a global problem, so if the entire world can’t unite on stopping it, is there any point to the US trying to do so? But how will climate change effect us in the long run?

Helping Youth At-Risk for Violent Crime “Choose to Change”

17m

2020 was an unusually violent year in America. A nonprofit is working to halt this trend in its tracks.

We’re Failing to Prevent Suicide Because We Misunderstand Why It Happens

42m

We’re trained to think that suicide is the result of mental illness when most of the time it’s not.

Mosquito-Proof Fabrics

10m

Mosquitoes are so good at finding a meal, they often manage to bite even through clothing.