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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: The Value of Care, with Alyssa Battistoni
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Care workers are organizing and striking around the country, from 800 nurses on the picket lines in Worcester, Massachusetts to a barely-averted strike of 4,000 hospital workers in Minnesota to 2,000 new nurse union members in Maine. But care work and “work-work” are still too often separated in people’s minds, and in public policy. This week, to look at Joe Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” and “American Families Plan” and assess them both in terms of economic and environmental impact, we’re joined by Alyssa Battistoni, a fellow at Harvard’s Center for the Environment, a membe...