It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard
Rebecca Gale, Katherine Goldstein, Haley SwensonA Substack on caregiving, writing and reporting - and the policies that make parenting in America so hard.
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Reporter and writer on caregiving, child care, parenting, and policy. Staff writer at Better Life Lab at New America.
Journalist, Fellow at the Better life Lab at New America. Mom of 3, including pandemic twins. At work on The How to Find Your People club (2025) and book (2027).
Writer, researcher, PhD Social Scientist and gender inequality expert, doing family with a wife, a baby, and a great, big village.
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