Prime-age women (ages 25 to 54) have contributed most to the rebound in U.S. labor force participation after the pandemic. Women with young children (ages 0 to 4) are a driving force in the recovery. Lauren Bauer and Sarah Yu Wang discuss this and other recent labor patterns and call for policies to better support the nation’s female workers.
On the final episode of the Foresight Africa podcast’s second season, Kerllen Costa of the National Geographic’s Okavango Wilderness Project joins Aloysius Uche Ordu to tell the story of the flora and fauna of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Costa emphasizes that regional locals are critical to the conservation and sustainability of this vital watershed.
The Millennial and Plural (Gen Z) generationsrank climate change and abortion among their top three issues. Questions about those two issues were the ones the GOP primary candidates had the most difficulty answering in last week’s debate. Morley Winograd, Michael Hais, and Doug Ross write that the generational split between Republican voters exemplifies the larger problem the party has in reconciling the attitudes of older and younger Republicans.
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