The Waves: The Caregiver Crisis
b'On this week\\u2019s episode of The Waves, Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time and director of the Better Life Lab, is joined by author Angela Garbes. They unpack the modern challenges of motherhood, further illustrated and then exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about Angela\\u2019s new book, Essential Labor, how caregiving is seen as sacred, yet we make it so hard in the United States, and why we pay caregivers\\u2014a key part of our society\\u2014poverty wages.\\xa0\\n\\nIn Slate Plus, Angela and Brigid talk about the subtitle of Angela\\u2019s book: Mothering As Social Change.\\n\\xa0\\nPodcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery.\\xa0\\nSend your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'