Re: 'We Live in an Economy That Provides Little Support to New Parents' (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Yeah, this was exactly my question.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > baby formula
 > 
 >  > From: FAIR<http://www.fair.org/~fair>
 >  > Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 19:10:22 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?e=6ed8ef48d7&u=e6457f9552de19bc603e65b9c&id=3739012d28
 >  > 
 >  > FAIR
 >  > View article on FAIR's website (
 >  > https://fair.org/home/we-live-in-an-economy-that-provides-little-support-to-new-parents/)
 >  > 'We Live in an Economy That Provides Little Support to New Parents' Janine 
 >  > Jackson (
 >  > https://fair.org/home/we-live-in-an-economy-that-provides-little-support-to-new-parents/)
 >  > 
 >  > Janine Jackson interviewed Popular Information's Tesnim Zekeria about baby 
 >  > formula shortages  for the May 13, 2022, episode (
 >  > https://fair.org/home/julie-hollar-on-roe-reversal-tesnim-zekeria-on-baby-formula-shortage/)
 >  > of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
 >  > 
 >  > https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin220513Zekeria.mp3
 >  > 
 >  > Popular Information: The baby formula shortage and the twisted priorities of 
 >  > the American economy
 >  > 
 >  > Popular Info (5/12/22 (
 >  > https://popular.info/p/the-baby-formula-shortage-and-the?s=r) )
 >  > 
 >  > TZ: Yeah. The other thing, too, that I find interesting is that, I was 
 >  > curious to learn more about how the lack of paid family leave in this 
 >  > country has also contributed to this crisis.
 >  > 
 >  > And unfortunately, there's only really a handful of pieces, like kind of 
 >  > blog posts, just things on the fringe, that really touched on the fact that, 
 >  > hey, a lot of moms in this country are unable to breastfeed. While, yeah, we 
 >  > did guarantee working moms breaks to pump milk, this requires adequate space,
 >  >  this requires expensive equipment. And, as a result, this means that it's 
 >  > pretty inaccessible.
 >  > 
 >  > There's also no federal requirement that workers are paid while they're 
 >  > pumping. So for women who work in low-wage industries, like fast food, 
 >  > pumping milk is just not affordable nor practical.
 >  > 
 >  > JJ: That's what I appreciate about this story, is that it starts from a 
 >  > question of: There's a baby formula shortage. How can people feed babies? 
 >  > And that's the question you start from, rather than, well, let's talk to a 
 >  > CEO of a company that's involved in the supply chain. It changes everything 
 >  > when you consider things as a problem, and try to think of it from the 
 >  > perspective of a person trying to navigate that problem. That seems to be 
 >  > just a categorically different way of doing reporting to me.
 >  > 
 >  > TZ: Definitely. Yeah.