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The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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The Importance of Intimacy in Care

Sally Kohn: How do you how would you describe care? What is what does that word mean in the context we're using here? She says there's a qualitative subjective difference. There are women who I talk to who really see this work as a calling like they were born to care for others, she says.Kohn: It's so fundamental to human life itself. From the time we're born to the time we die, we rely upon the care of others. We've somehow cast it as non productive labor. But it is actually the essential work of the human experience.

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