Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Wednesday, August 9th, and we are here trying to help

you make better. It doesn't have to be the best, better financial decisions. It does not

have to be the best. I keep emphasizing that. And I just want to thank everybody for

really coming back every single day, listening to the program, but also comments that are so

interesting. Mark, did you get any feedback from when I read the email from the economist

about the woman whose husband called about her their daycare and went then the women leaving

the labor force? Did you get any feedback from that? No, I don't think I did. Nothing that's

jumping out of me now. So I must, of course, this is obviously shows you like where the funnel is

on my life. But I got a number of texts from friends of mine, which I thought was kind of funny

because, you know, I guess that to me, like, you know, my friends who listen to the show, of course,

they always know what's going on. But, you know, they that seemed, that segment was very resident

to a number of my friends. And one of my friends who was listening to the pod as she was traveling

for work, she goes, it's such a huge issue for my firm. We are losing people all the time for

this exact reason, which is women leaving the workforce. They want to take care of their kids.

They don't have the right daycare issues. I think that there's something here, especially about

these people who have real desires to have a career. And it may not even be, you know, this

particular person who wrote me makes a ton of money. But it could be that you don't make so much

money. And you start to feel like, well, maybe it doesn't make sense. And I loved the fact that

the economist who wrote in said, you know, it's not just the income. Well, first of all, it's like

your psyche. Second of all, it's the long-term benefits that you can accrue. And there is also

something to be said about the connection to the labor force begets more opportunities.

Because once you leave the labor force, it's a really tough thing to get back in, which is why

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