Hey folks, Rick Wilson here. Today Molly and I have a special bonus episode of the new app normal for you

Featuring an interview with representative Katie Porter who represents California's 45th district

She was elected in 2018 and has become famous for being one of the members of Congress in the majority now who likes things like

accountability and math

This is why we love her and we are so delighted to have you with us today. Welcome. I had a question for you about being a single mom

Do you want to talk a little bit more about that? One of the interesting things is there are now

Particularly with the election of this 2018 class a number of my colleagues who were raised by single parents

I mean, you Craig is a great example of this and I love hearing them because I always think to myself

There's some hope for my children to turn out because these other people were raised by single moms and they're turning out great

But I do think it's different when you're living experience and trying to make policy and so there's a lot of ways in which this

pandemic I think has highlighted the long-standing challenges faced by single parents and more single parents are women than men

But I think the challenges fall equally on just a job being a single parent more than it is about being a single mom

They're just a lot more single moms out there

But look we see this in the statistics really clearly and we look compared to a year ago the percentage of single mothers with jobs is

Down 22% and that's compared to a 9% drop for other families with children so much

Much disproportional impact here of job loss being felt by single parents part of that is because they often are able to only get and maintain

Low-wage jobs. They have a higher job turnover sometimes because they're forced to take unpaid leave to care for their kids

You know the reality is that the pandemic has fallen no harder on women than men

But really double your tripply hard. I think on single moms and yet Congress doesn't seem to understand that and I'll just give you one example

When Congress passed the CARES Act the $200 one-time economic impact payment

There's an income threshold at which that payment begins to fade out and it was set at

75,000 for a single person and a 150,000 for a married couple

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