Caring Across Generations

CAG advocates for government assistance for the estimated 53 million unpaid caregivers in the US, such as family members, who provide an estimated $600 billion of unpaid care annually. According to CAG, the financial and other costs of long-term care that families face is "beyond a crisis point ... It's been a rolling crisis and we're at a catastrophic point."^[3]

From 2018 to 2020, CAG participate in Lead Local, a research project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examining community power and community power-building in health care. The unusual research approach teamed CAG and three other non-academic organizations, Change Elemental, Human Impact Partners, and Right to the City Alliance, with university academics from the Johns Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute, the University of Southern California (USC) Equity Research Institute, and Vanderbilt University. Each party brought its own theories of community power-building and collaborated on research design and case study selection.^[4]

The CAG-led Care Can't Wait coalition of social justice and labor organizations, founded in 2020, seeks to build a robust federal care infrastructure. Labor unions involved include the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).^[5][6]

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