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Microcredit? Spare Us the Praise for a Panacea

By Feiner & Barker ● Employment ● October 2, 2008

The White House, the Nobel Prize Committee and many development agencies celebrate microcredit as a boon to women struggling to survive. Economists Susan Feiner and Drucilla Barker dissent, saying it distracts from wage and work reforms.

Support for Caretakers Missing From Mother’s Day

By Feiner & Barker ● Arts & Culture ● May 9, 2007

Even though most U.S. mothers work for pay they often face a myth of women happily at home with the kids. It’s a centuries’ old story of fiction over fact that will only end when women refuse the role of unpaid caregivers and labor is equal at home.