“Who will care for America’s children and the elderly,” she asks, now that two-thirds of mothers with children under six are in the workforce, yet “market fundamentalism—the irrational belief that markets solve all problems—has succeeded in dismantling so many federal regulations, services and protections?”53 But the cause would argue that it has answered that question over and over again: You will. And if you can’t, you should have thought of that before you had kids or before you grew old without adequate savings. The solution to every problem—from young people loaded down with student loan
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