EARNCon Session: Creating a Care Economy: Advancing Racial and Gender Justice by Building a Care Infrastructure in the States

This session will focus on what states can do to build a better care system, inclusive of child care, paid leave, and long-term care provisions including nursing facilities home and community-based services. Panelists will discuss equitable implementation of remaining relief dollars, state best practices on CCDBG and other care investments, campaign to improve care provisioning and working conditions in nursing facilities in Los Angeles County, narrative change work to position child care and home and community-based services as public goods, and long-term base-building work with a growing care movement centering racial and gender justice.