Inflation and Paid Care Services in the U.S.

This paper was presented as part of the “Global Inflation Today” conference at PERI, December 2022. For the full set of conference papers and conference commentary, video, and interviews, click here.

Nancy Folbre offers a number of reasons why increases in average wages among the lowest deciles of the population are not likely to significantly buffer the effects of rapid inflation on families with incomes below the poverty line. It also raises a number of specific questions for future research.

>> Also read Nancy Folbre’s commentary “The Unfair Costs of Care,” published as part of the American Prospect‘s “Great Inflation Myths” series.