COVID-19 Takes a Toll on Working Families
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Families, day cares feel strain of new COVID-19 health rulesJoelle Wheatley hit her pandemic-parenting rock bottom after her son was sent home from day care for a second time, with the sniffles, due to stricter health guidelines in a symptom-sensitive COVID-19 world.
It was supposed to be Jacob’s first day back after a stressful 10-day home quarantine for another mild symptom that turned out to be harmless. Frustrated, desperate — there were no other care options, and she needed to focus on work — and certain that the 2-year-old’s runny nose and cough were also benign, the Seattle mom...
From the Left
How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress BackwardFour times as many women as men dropped out of the labor force in September, roughly 865,000 women compared with 216,000 men. This validates predictions that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women—and the accompanying child care and school crises—would be severe. In July, a Washington Post article—titled, “Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation”—pointed out that “[o]ne out of four women who reported becoming unemployed during the pandemic said it was because of a lack of child care—twice the rate among men.”1 In August, CNN ran...
From the Right
Survey: Households Consider Second COVID Wave of HoardingMore than half of all Americans are planning as winter approaches to replenish stockpiles of goods they originally hoarded at the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, while nearly as many plan to have a supply on hand at all times in case of another emergency, a marketing company’s survey says.
Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, disinfectant wipes and canned goods were the top items 57% of shoppers were intending to amass, while 54% of those queried by Inmar Marketing, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, data research firm, said they were...
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