The U.S. government has long left working families to fend for themselves. Both Biden and Trump campaigned on changing that, and both delivered a bit.
Brigid Schulte
Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist and the author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time and the forthcoming Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life. She serves as director of the Better Life Lab at New America. (Tessa Bowman provided research assistance for this article.)
