Privatizing Care Rather than Protecting Children: Nixon's Decisive Veto of Universal Childcare & the Policy Development of Privatized Childcare Responsibilities in the United States.

• In Event: The State in Unexpected Places

Brief Overview

With new primary source evidence from Nixon’s Presidential archives, I link a mid-1960s/early-70s social science discourse on poverty to the contemporary United States’ distinctly-private childcare approach.

Author

• Sophie Jacobson, Yale University