This Feb. 16, 2017 file photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York.

30 Issues: The Future of Childcare

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2020

Elizabeth Palley, director of the PhD Program at the Adelphi University School of Social Work and a scholar of the history of child care policy, talks about the history and the future of these policies in the Unites States, and how the policies of the presidential candidates compare.

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