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Increased arrests by immigration enforcement agents under the second Trump administration have created a “chilling effect” on the child care industry, resulting in a decrease in workers and in turn less mothers in the workforce, according to a new report from New America, a progressive Washington think tank.

Unveiled on Wednesday, “The Impact of Increased ICE Activity on the Child Care Workforce and Mothers’ Employment,” revealed that 77,000 U.S.-born mothers with children aged 0 to 5 dropped out of the workforce between January 2025 and July 2025 due to “the rise in immigration enforcement,” said Chris Herbst, a report author.

In 2025, mothers’ labor force participation declined by 3 percent, Herbst said....

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In September, when billions of dollars in child care funding were about to expire, a Senate subcommittee convened to discuss solutions. It was there that Sen. John Kennedy laid out the partisan tension at the heart of what’s billed as a bipartisan issue.

He agreed that child care was an investment in the current and future workforce. Being opposed to affordable child care, the Louisiana Republican said, “is like being opposed to golden retrievers — no fair-minded person can be opposed to it.” ...

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Democratic governors are pushing Congress to make significant investments in child care as the last pandemic-era federal child care subsidies are set to lapse this fall, pushing providers and parents into uncertain territory.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina led a June 13 letter, signed by nine other Democratic governors, asking top congressional leaders to maintain the current funding levels and increase recurring funds for child care as they draft their fiscal 2024 budget bills. ...

This year at Netroots Nation, Raw Story was asking of various panel speakers, exhibitors and attendees about issues you didn’t hear addressed on the main stage.

[rebelmouse-image 24749406 original_size="226x170" expand=1]This story from the BBC is interesting (hat tip): researchers found that men that agreed that women were inferior and should stay at home taking care of men instead of going out and doing for themselves made more money than egalitarian men. The study couldn't have dipped into younger men for this study---they were tracking the same group of people from ages 14-22 in 1979 until now, making the target group ages 45-53. Being a sexist pig was lucrative for men, to the tune of $8500 a year more than the pro-feminist men. The researchers noted a small gain in salary for feminist women---$1500 over non-feminist women---which says to me that non-feminist women are usually working even if they think it's wrong and bad, probably because they have to.