Mark Fukae

@MarkFukae
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Your fall grocery bill is being decided RIGHT NOW. Fertilizer +35%. Spring planting THIS MONTH. Congress not asking what happens next: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-caregiver-1e8?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #FoodSecurity
21st Century Guardrails: A Caregiver Lens Part V - Repair the Legislature

When Congress Stops Holding the Record

Wife: "Just stop. Be kind." Stop correcting, redirect. I think about that every time Washington fails caregivers. Part IV is out: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-caregiver-991?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #caregivers #COleg
21st Century Guardrails: A Caregiver Lens - Part IV - Repair the Courts

The Night I Stopped Correcting - And Why Colorado Can't Wait for Washington

The Revenue Neutral Caregiver
Congress hasn't updated FMLA since 1993. Before smartphones. Before remote work. Before the caregiving crisis. Time to modernize: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-caregiver-190?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #CAREAct #COleg
21st Century Guardrails: A Caregiver Lens - Part III - Taming the Executive

The Moment the System Told Me My Caregiving Didn't Count

This weekend at GenghisCon, I watched strangers build a collaborative world in an hour. Then I came home to a Supreme Court striking down tariffs because Congress won't use its own power, a DOJ firing prosecutors on social media, and a DHS shutdown [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-caregiver-20f?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]
21st Century Guardrails: A Caregiver Lens - Part II

Congressional Power in Freefall - A series about what happens when the systems meant to protect families - and democracies - begin to fail, and why caregivers are the first to see the drift.

Happy Valentine's Day. My mother asks "Where is everyone?" every 30 seconds. We're right there. Caregiving is heart work. Today, love looks like infrastructure. https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-caregiver?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#HeartWork #BananaInMustard
21ST CENTURY GUARDRAILS - A CAREGIVER LENS

A new series about what happens when the systems meant to protect families - and democracies - begin to fail, and why caregivers are the first to see the drift.

The Revenue Neutral Caregiver
If government can't protect fundamental rights, how could a market? Markets help people survive broken systems. Systemic solutions fix them: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/vulnerability-and-systems-where-caregiving?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #SystemicChange
VULNERABILITY & SYSTEMS: Where caregiving meets systemic failure - and why policy must evolve.

The Desk Light Flickered Once: A Country Running Low on Empathy

The Revenue Neutral Caregiver
Government shutdown at midnight. Caregivers are the shock absorbers of a country in crisis. We absorb the impact when institutions fail: [https://substack.com/@therevenueneutralcaregiver/note/p-186453183?r=6a52ih&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web]
OUR LIVES ON HOLD: Caregivers Are the Shock Absorbers of a Country in Crisis

A shutdown weekend, a nation on edge, and the quiet work caregivers do to keep families steady.

My heart breaks a little more every day. Not just from caregiving, but from watching communities shaken, families terrified, tension rising: https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-when-the-system?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Our Lives On Hold: When the System Depends on Caregivers but Punishes Them for Staying Afloat

As federal rules tighten, Colorado's budget contracts, and employers retreat from flexibility, caregivers are being asked to hold together the very systems that destabilize their lives.

$2B cut Jan 13. Restored Jan 14. 114% ACA premium spike. 4.8M at risk. Zero legislative plan. Federal lifelines vanish at any moment. State action: https://therevenueneutralcaregiver.substack.com/p/our-lives-on-hold-when-home-becomes?r=6a52ih #Caregivers
OUR LIVES ON HOLD When “Home” Becomes a Memory - And Policy Becomes a Moving Target

A week of vanished grants, soaring premiums, and a healthcare plan without a plan.

The Revenue Neutral Caregiver
Legal protections exist. Enforcement doesn't. Caregivers hide because vulnerability = liability. This has to change. Read: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-when-the-cards?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #WorkplaceJustice
Our Lives On Hold: When the Cards Become the Memory - And Why Imagination Isn’t Enough

A week of birthday candles, federal court rulings, and the unspoken truth about caregiving in America