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Jessica Mason
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Anthropologist | Pedestrienne | Senior Policy Analyst @ National Partnership for Women & Families. Personal account.
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I'm sure it's a good sign that child care employment, disproportionately staffed by immigrant women and a backbone of our economy, is dropping. #NumbersDay
Current Employment Statistics data on child care services employment showing a decline from June 2025 (1109.4) to September 2025 (1103.3) in thousands.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Headline from Ross Douthat column reading "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" above a publicity image from the film 9 to 5, featuring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton standing behind their boss, who is tied to a char, with Ross Douthat's face replacing the dastardly boss played by Dabney Coleman.
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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It's a legitimate question.
Mock-up of New York Times opinion headline reading: Interesting Times. Did Women Ruin My Soup? subhead: And can conservative feminism fix it? By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I realize we're all in the business of normalizing the fertility panic now, but what the heck is this. Folks, even if the birthrate magically quadrupled tomorrow, millions of infants could not backfill a deported immigrant workforce. Why mention fertility here at all? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Excerpt from New York Times reading: The administration’s attempt to clamp down on immigration comes at a time when the industry faces another challenge: the growing number of seniors. The U.S. population age 65 and older has been increasing at a rapid clip, meaning the long-term care industry will need more workers in the coming years to keep up. “Barring some major change in fertility rates, we’re going to need immigrants to continue to supply the work force that the country needs for aging care,” said Julia Gelatt, the associate director of the U.S. immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute.
July 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Enraging -- but the story you may not know is that local and state governments have been dramatically expanding paid sick leave in recent years with laws that protect low-wage and part-time workers as well as others. nationalpartnership.org/travesty-27-...
Chart illustrating the increasing rate of access to paid sick leave among workers overall, as well as part-time, full-time, management and professional, and service workers, from 2009 to 2024. The lowest bar, for part-time workers, almost doubles from 26% in 2009 to 55% in 2024. Gains for service workers were also large, from 42% to 64%, and workers overall from 61% to 79%. Access for management and professional and full-time workers began at 73% and 84% and increased to 87% and 92%. At the bottom of the chart, bars illustrate the number of states with paid sick leave laws, just 1 in 2009 and 15 in 2024. Data from the National Partnership for Women & Families.
July 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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We found a big, persistent gender gap in unpaid caregiving. But a gender gap is not a gender war. This isn't a story of women versus men -- it's about all of us versus an economic system we need to fix, together.
But in an economy that forces so many workers to choose between putting food on the table and providing the care their loved ones need, everyone gets the short end of the stick. The financial and job consequences tend to be more stark for women, who end up doing more caregiving, while men may work more hours but struggle to be the involved caregivers they’d like to be. This shows up as a big gap in the average time spent caregiving, and it’s persistent across race and ethnicity.
June 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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As a serious, hard-nosed Beltway observer, I'm taking seriously arguments on both sides
Classic The Onion headline, "Point/Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t"
June 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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In addition to the big #HandsOff rally in DC today, also a solid showing against the genocide in Gaza, calling for an arms embargo and for ICE to free Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and others.
Photo showing long lines of children's sandals and shoes in a rainbow of colors laid out on Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, representing the thousands of children killed by Israel's war on Gaza. Protesters holding Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs stand in the middle ground. The photo aims west up the Avenue, and the shoes extend for many blocks toward the White House. Photo of the DC rally for Gaza, protesting the genocide and the US provision of arms to carry it out. The image includes a crowd of protesters, many with signs and flags. Prominent in the midground of the photo is a large hand-drawn poster with the colors of the Palestinian flag, and a hand making a peace sign in the center separating the black, red, and green sections. In the background is the dome of the US Capitol.
April 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Image of Leland Palmer (Twin Peaks) with the text, "You may think I've gone insane, but I promise I will kill again!"
March 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM