At the Better Life Lab, we produce and support high-quality research and journalism,聽 expand the field of care journalism and storytelling capacity, and work to strengthen the network of those dedicated to care innovations and solutions by uplifting the excellent work of partner organizations, researchers, journalists, and storytellers. Here are just three such sources that can help provide deeper context to journalists and inform and drive storytelling. Subscribe to the Better Life Lab newsletter for more resources.
Matthew Nestler, (KPMG Economics, 2026).
- Nestler is a senior economist at KPMG US who leads their research on the care economy鈥攃hild care, elder care and paid leave鈥攁nd on how the care crisis affects workers, families, employers, and the U.S. economy. He publishes a biweekly newsletter, on LinkedIn.
Curran McSwigan, (Third Way, 2026) and (Third Way, 2025).
- McSwigan is deputy director of the economic program at Third Way, a centrist think tank. These reader-friendly, graphics-heavy reports serve as excellent primers on how the child care system is a broken market.
National Alliance for Caregiving, AARP, (2025).听听
- Drawing from their extensive membership networks, these two organizations鈥 ongoing research provides the clearest big-picture view of the rapidly increasing need for older age care in the United States and the toll it鈥檚 taking on caregivers and families.
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