Angela Garbes
speaker
147 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 May
Angela Garbes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is so many, you know, we talk about this care crisis that was exposed in the pandemic, right? When child care centers and schools closed down, we were lost. People didn't know what to do. But many of us have always known that, you know, until your child is age six, in America, you're really on your own.
And there are many people who are choosing between should I put my child in daycare or should I work because it's really about the same amount of money. Right. Right. But so studies have been done. So Oxfam has a study that if women in America were paid minimum wage for the amount of domestic labor that they do unpaid right now, it would be worth $1.9 trillion per year. Wow.
So talk about putting a value on that. That is part of our economy. And that's a thing that we just have not reckoned with in this country. Our country, American capitalism relies just as much on the labor that happens in the home as any other labor that happens in the office or on a job site.
Yes. When you invest. So I believe that raising children, you know, it's a choice that people make to have kids or to not have kids. And I think we should all. Unfortunately, this is not guaranteed in our country.
We should all be allowed to make that choice for ourselves.
But whether or not you have children, you know, raising kids is a social responsibility. And when we invest like no one gets to adulthood without someone taking care of them. And that's their parents, it's also beloved aunties, it's a preschool teacher, it's a teacher, right? There's so many people who are a part of that.
And when we invest in children and families and mothers, it's investing in public health. It's investing in the very future and health of our society.
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