Child Care Is Too Damn Expensive (with Elliot Haspel)

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The Woman Putting Child Care on the Ballot (with Deb VanderGaast)

Gloria sits down with Deb VanderGaast, the Iowa woman running for state senate on a child care platform. Deb, a mother, activist, and child care director, recounts the harrowing story that caused her to leave her stable nursing job to start her own daycare center (despite her fam ...  Show more

How to Be a ‘Good Enough’ Parent (with Sara Gilbert)

Gloria calls up an old friend, the actress/author/activist Sara Gilbert, best known for playing Darlene on the hit shows Roseanne and The Conners, to talk about how they balance child care with demanding careers in the media. They get into Sara’s experiences with solo parenting, ...  Show more

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