Childcare through undocumented female immigrants is a symptom of everything that's wrong with current globalization—not something to defend.
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First the workers often leave their own children behind (so they can send them money) and can never see them since "undocumented"=no travel.
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These workers are also often stuck in a house, no peers or workplace, a system that's obviously very open to abuse, and happens a lot.
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Parents resort to this system because of lack of affordable alternatives for childcare in a country that demands two-incomes to survive.
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"The undocumented are great source of cheap & exploitable labor" should never be a talking point. That argues for keeping them exploitable.
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If, globally, we don't find the politics that doesn't depend on underpaid immigrants subsidizing other working families' wages, woe is us.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Paul Marin
Childcare is not—shouldn't be—low-skilled labor. Investing in more skilled childcare is among the best investments.https://twitter.com/paulmarin90/status/771321093785255936 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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OK, that's fair. So would you envision that being universal pre-K?
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@paulmarin90 Yes. Universal pre-K among the best investments a country could make. I say this as a college prof. Put the money to pre-K.5 replies 9 retweets 18 likes -
Bring back sane taxation. There is a global capital glut. Literally negative interest rates.
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in my lifetime, a Republican president balanced a budget once. How about those rates?
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