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Kathryn Cai

Kathryn Cai

Kathryn Cai is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and Public Goods Policy Strategist at the Partnership for Working Families. In 2019 she received her PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, where her doctoral work examined narratives of care work in transpacific circuits of capital. icon

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Building a Society that Values Care

By Kathryn Cai

Aging Americans are cared for by family members or low-paid nurses. Both lack support for their necessary work, which COVID-19 has only made harder.

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