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Brigid Schulte

Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Better Life Lab, LinkedIn, Next Big Idea Club Podcast, Facebook, CNN, Forge, MSN, MSN UK, O Globo, The New York Times, Yahoo Life and
Writer. Speaker. Director @BetterLifeLab @NewAmerica. Author of Over Work and Overwhelmed. Work + Care + Gender Equity.

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Brigid Schulte’s Journalist Portfolio

The Test of Time: A busy working mother tries to figure out where all her time is going

The Test of Time: A busy working mother tries to figure out where all her time is going

Let me tell you about a typical day in my life as a working mother. Oh, wait, there is no such thing. There w…

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Collection of Stories on Care

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By Rebecca Gale, Elliot Haspel, Brigid Schulte
| New America
Below is a list of stories supported by Better Life Lab’s 2025–2026 reporting grants. To read the full article, click on the link before each story summary. Even in a Nation With Robust Family Policies, Stay-at-Home Parents Struggle By Rebecca Gale, The 74 August 6, 2025 Finland is often cited as a model of family-friendly policies, but stay-at-home parents there face many of the same challenges as their counterparts in the United States.
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Georgia's housing crisis has families running in place

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By Brigid Schulte
| bostonnews.net
By Brigid Schulte for Better Life Lab at New America and The Guardian. Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Georgia News Connection reporting for the Better Life Lab at New America-Public News Service Collaboration At the end of a long day at school, 14-year-old Na’Kaya Godfrey, and her 12-year-old brother, Junior, returned home to a dark, empty house in Stone Mountain, Georgia, outside Atlanta.
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Chapter 4. The Path Forward: What Families Told Us They Need to Thrive

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By Brigid Schulte, Haley Swenson, Julia Craven
| New America
By Brigid Schulte, Haley Swenson, and Julia Craven In March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic marked a stark departure from politics and policy as usual in the United States.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was a fact checker at Vanity Fair magazine in New York City. Ugh.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Typed laborious college term papers on an old IBM Selectric. Columbia Grad. Schl of Journalism taught on manuals in 1986.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To tell the stories and witness the truth of our time