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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - If You Don't Know, Now You Know: U.S. Childcare Crisis

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic deals an especially hard blow to working mothers, and Trevor examines how America's prohibitively expensive childcare costs have always placed a heavy burden on women. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

Now, children, they like puppies that walk on two legs.

0:09.3

But with the pandemic, taking care of them is harder than ever.

0:13.5

And guess which gender has been settled with that burden?

0:17.0

The child care crisis is pushing working moms out of the labor force.

0:21.3

More than two million women have left the workforce in the U.S. since this pandemic began.

0:26.1

When you look at that December job support on a net basis, women made up all of the job

0:30.5

losses, losing 156,000 jobs, men net gained 16,000.

0:36.5

Even before the pandemic, women shouldered more household chores.

0:40.4

When school shut down and daycare is closed, many women felt they had no choice, but returned

0:46.0

to jobs as homemakers.

0:47.4

Burn out among working moms who are juggling it all, the home school, the child care and

0:52.9

the demanding jobs.

0:53.9

My son's headphones are not working right now, so I'm spending my day working while hearing

1:03.0

the school in the background.

1:05.0

I usually get about an hour or so of uninterrupted work time.

1:10.8

So there is also the fun fact that my son is in band and they have to do it virtually.

1:19.8

Man, I feel so bad for that mom.

1:22.8

She's got to work with her kid playing French horn in the background.

1:27.9

Honestly speaking, all brass instruments should be illegal.

1:32.8

No one's ever said car horns are great, but how do we bring them indoors?

1:37.9

But look, if your kid has to play a brass instrument, then you should make sure that it's

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