One Single Mom’s Child Care Journey (with Waukecha Wilkerson)

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What It Really Means to Not Have Child Care (with Sa’iyda Shabazz)

How do you find a job when you have no child care? How do you find an apartment with no job? How do you pull off Christmas when you’re stressed about making next month’s rent? Sa’iyda Shabazz has done it all. The writer and mother joins Gloria to tell her about how she made it al ...  Show more

What You Can Do to Help End Child Poverty (with David Ambroz)

Hundreds of thousands of young people in this country live in poverty or are homeless. Many thousands more face uncertain futures, and even abuse, while navigating (or languishing in) the foster care system. In A Place Called Home, author and child welfare advocate David Ambroz c ...  Show more

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