Julie Kashen
@kashenj.bsky.social
Practical idealist. Feminist. Mom. Director, Women’s Economic Justice @tcfdotorg. Coach. Building an equitable world.
Posts are mine.
Posts are mine.
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🦃 NEW: Thanksgiving dinner is up 10% this year — more than 3x overall inflation.
Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up.
Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org
tcf.org/content/comm...
Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up.
Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org
tcf.org/content/comm...
A Pricier Plate: Thanksgiving Costs Climb Nearly 10% This Year
As families across the country prepare to carve turkey and watch football, new analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT
tcf.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🦃 NEW: Thanksgiving dinner is up 10% this year — more than 3x overall inflation.
Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up.
Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org
tcf.org/content/comm...
Families are cutting back or skipping the holiday entirely. Why? Trump’s policies keep driving prices up.
Read my latest with @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org
tcf.org/content/comm...
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Perhaps my favorite piece we’ve published so far, where @kashenj.bsky.social and I talk about the ways we are seeing love change our national conversation, and the crucial role of hope in building a better future.
open.substack.com/pub/hopeseed...
open.substack.com/pub/hopeseed...
On Hope
Julie: The best news story of the week I’ve seen is that the Administration has reportedly abandoned a proposal that would have prevented thousands of Americans from accessing disability benefits. The...
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Perhaps my favorite piece we’ve published so far, where @kashenj.bsky.social and I talk about the ways we are seeing love change our national conversation, and the crucial role of hope in building a better future.
open.substack.com/pub/hopeseed...
open.substack.com/pub/hopeseed...
As we tell the story of Trump’s harmful policies - dismantling the federal government, DEIA, tariffs impacting layoffs & more - we can see some of the impacts. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can make better choices that create good jobs, center Black women & make the economy better for all.
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As we tell the story of Trump’s harmful policies - dismantling the federal government, DEIA, tariffs impacting layoffs & more - we can see some of the impacts. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can make better choices that create good jobs, center Black women & make the economy better for all.
Appreciate #carefest highlighting our new report with @caringacross.org
The Care Imperative: Why Investing in Care Grows America
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@lfevalle.bsky.social @jaimieworker.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
The Care Imperative: Why Investing in Care Grows America
tcf.org/content/repo...
@lfevalle.bsky.social @jaimieworker.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Appreciate #carefest highlighting our new report with @caringacross.org
The Care Imperative: Why Investing in Care Grows America
tcf.org/content/repo...
@lfevalle.bsky.social @jaimieworker.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
The Care Imperative: Why Investing in Care Grows America
tcf.org/content/repo...
@lfevalle.bsky.social @jaimieworker.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
Loved hearing from @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social and this great panel about caring across the generations (and why she went right to the Census Bureau when she learned firsthand how hard it is to work and care.
#carefest
#carecantwait
#carefest
#carecantwait
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Loved hearing from @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social and this great panel about caring across the generations (and why she went right to the Census Bureau when she learned firsthand how hard it is to work and care.
#carefest
#carecantwait
#carefest
#carecantwait
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Powerful — we need to do away with the narrative that “caregiving is a solo mission.” Emma Heming Willis
As the other phenomenal woman on stage has said, It takes a village. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social #CareFest
As the other phenomenal woman on stage has said, It takes a village. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social #CareFest
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Powerful — we need to do away with the narrative that “caregiving is a solo mission.” Emma Heming Willis
As the other phenomenal woman on stage has said, It takes a village. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social #CareFest
As the other phenomenal woman on stage has said, It takes a village. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social #CareFest
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CareFest off to an incredibly moving start with its first panel. Love this point: In 2020, when we all had to answer the question "what is essential?", care was the universal answer.
November 2, 2023 at 4:43 PM
CareFest off to an incredibly moving start with its first panel. Love this point: In 2020, when we all had to answer the question "what is essential?", care was the universal answer.
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I'm glad that @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @kashenj.bsky.social continue to figure for investments in the care economy. Check out their latest report: tcf.org/content/repo...
The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy
Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for
tcf.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm glad that @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @kashenj.bsky.social continue to figure for investments in the care economy. Check out their latest report: tcf.org/content/repo...
So proud of our new report with @caringacross.org @jaimieworker.bsky.social about the care imperative.
Time to make care a national priority. #carecantwait
#carefest
Time to make care a national priority. #carecantwait
#carefest
Investments in care policies, including those that support child care, paid leave, aging and disability care, and good jobs for care workers ensure that the government is responsive to people’s basic needs.
New from TCF and @caringacross.org: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative
New from TCF and @caringacross.org: go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So proud of our new report with @caringacross.org @jaimieworker.bsky.social about the care imperative.
Time to make care a national priority. #carecantwait
#carefest
Time to make care a national priority. #carecantwait
#carefest
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TCF senior fellow @kashenj.bsky.social weighs in on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s vision for child care in New York City.
Can Mamdani Pull Off a Child-Care Miracle?
The hurdles facing the incoming mayor’s proposal are as large as its potential rewards.
www.theatlantic.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TCF senior fellow @kashenj.bsky.social weighs in on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s vision for child care in New York City.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
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This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil... via @19thnews.org
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil... via @19thnews.org
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Now that Zohran Mamdani won, how much of his agenda will he be able to accomplish? Here's my back-of-the-envelope estimation of what he can feasibly achieve and how. Short version: I actually think he can get a lot of it done.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Now that Zohran Mamdani won, how much of his agenda will he be able to accomplish? Here's my back-of-the-envelope estimation of what he can feasibly achieve and how. Short version: I actually think he can get a lot of it done.
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov Making sure you saw this - in Chicago
The taking of neighbors in communities around the country is so horrific.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov Making sure you saw this - in Chicago
The taking of neighbors in communities around the country is so horrific.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The taking of neighbors in communities around the country is so horrific.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom?
Enraging is too weak a word to describe this.
#Momsky activate.
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Republicans were already gutting Head Start programs across the country.
Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families.
All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires.
apnews.com/article/head...
Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families.
All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires.
apnews.com/article/head...
Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of presch...
apnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Republicans were already gutting Head Start programs across the country.
Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families.
All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires.
apnews.com/article/head...
Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families.
All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires.
apnews.com/article/head...
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Making AI slop videos and making "your mom" jokes isn't going to lower the cost of child care for millions of parents trying to make ends meet. But free child care would—read more about it from TCF's @kashenj.bsky.social here: tcf.org/content/comm...
Free Child Care Would Help Families Afford a Better Life
Across the country, no matter what background, faith, or color, people are working hard to provide for their families. But as this work has made America
tcf.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Making AI slop videos and making "your mom" jokes isn't going to lower the cost of child care for millions of parents trying to make ends meet. But free child care would—read more about it from TCF's @kashenj.bsky.social here: tcf.org/content/comm...
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After WWII, the U.S. ended universal child care so women would return to caregiving and soldiers could take their jobs. Now there's a new effort to get women out of the workplace. "I am not on board with going backwards,” says @kashenj.bsky.social in @whyy.org interview whyy.org/episodes/wor...
Why are more moms quitting the workforce?
More women are leaving the labor force – especially young mothers. More than 200,000 have quit this year alone. That’s the steepest decline in four decades and washes away many of the job gains from t...
whyy.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
After WWII, the U.S. ended universal child care so women would return to caregiving and soldiers could take their jobs. Now there's a new effort to get women out of the workplace. "I am not on board with going backwards,” says @kashenj.bsky.social in @whyy.org interview whyy.org/episodes/wor...
Reposted by Julie Kashen
What would the ideal child care infrastructure in America look like? A system that’s affordable, accessible, and builds community.
TCF’s @kashenj.bsky.social in conversation with
@rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social of @momsrising.org.
Full episode ➡️ go.tcf.org/momsrising
Julie's latest ➡️ go.tcf.org/ccwfa
TCF’s @kashenj.bsky.social in conversation with
@rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social of @momsrising.org.
Full episode ➡️ go.tcf.org/momsrising
Julie's latest ➡️ go.tcf.org/ccwfa
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What would the ideal child care infrastructure in America look like? A system that’s affordable, accessible, and builds community.
TCF’s @kashenj.bsky.social in conversation with
@rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social of @momsrising.org.
Full episode ➡️ go.tcf.org/momsrising
Julie's latest ➡️ go.tcf.org/ccwfa
TCF’s @kashenj.bsky.social in conversation with
@rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social of @momsrising.org.
Full episode ➡️ go.tcf.org/momsrising
Julie's latest ➡️ go.tcf.org/ccwfa
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Federal pandemica-era investments showed states what is possible when they invest in child care. Now, @kashenj.bsky.social says, states including CT, NM, NY, OR, and VT are working to build out their child care infrastructure. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
New Mexico is first state to offer free universal child care. Will others follow suit?
Universal child care is coming to New Mexico in November, marking the first state in America to guarantee free child care to every parent.
www.usatoday.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Federal pandemica-era investments showed states what is possible when they invest in child care. Now, @kashenj.bsky.social says, states including CT, NM, NY, OR, and VT are working to build out their child care infrastructure. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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📢 We’re partnering with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social for the DC launch of Anna Gifty's (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) new book, “The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📢 We’re partnering with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social for the DC launch of Anna Gifty's (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) new book, “The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.”
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Today, the Census Bureau released new data that show that in 2024, 13.4% of U.S. children under 18—9.7 million children—lived in poverty
TCF's Rachel West and Julie Kashen analyze these data and explore policies to end child poverty: go.tcf.org/childpoverty
TCF's Rachel West and Julie Kashen analyze these data and explore policies to end child poverty: go.tcf.org/childpoverty
September 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today, the Census Bureau released new data that show that in 2024, 13.4% of U.S. children under 18—9.7 million children—lived in poverty
TCF's Rachel West and Julie Kashen analyze these data and explore policies to end child poverty: go.tcf.org/childpoverty
TCF's Rachel West and Julie Kashen analyze these data and explore policies to end child poverty: go.tcf.org/childpoverty
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Join us for an evening with award-winning researcher and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman as she launches her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.
📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC
📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM
🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow
📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC
📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM
🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow
"The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid" Book Launch Event
Award-winning researcher, speaker, and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyemen is releasing her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and
tcf.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Join us for an evening with award-winning researcher and writer Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman as she launches her new book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.
📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC
📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM
🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow
📍 MLK Library Auditorium, Washington, DC
📅 Thursday, Sept. 18 | 6 PM
🎟️ Complimentary books + signing to follow