Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after laying bare the compounding pressures on modern families. Between skyrocketing costs of living, rigid workplace expectations, and an eye-watering gap between school days and work hours, is the current system setting parents up to fail?
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Reged Ahmad speaks with CEO of advocacy group The Parenthood, Georgie Dent, to unpack why raising children has become an impossible mathematical equation and how policy reform can fix it.
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