Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, it's the 30th, the last day of June, and I'm Naila Boodoo.

We're going to go straight into one big thing, our one story you can't miss. Almost 40% of the

American workforce are working parents. And it's been a huge struggle to juggle

homeschooling work and of course a pandemic. Here's the catch. Many workplaces are

likely to reopen this fall even if many K through 12 schools aren't. The idea of

an economy reopening to its full capacity without schools reopening to their full capacity is a pipe dream.

The looming child care disaster is today's one big thing.

Erica Pandey covers the future of work for Axios.

And for working parents, I'm sorry to say the future doesn't look good.

So when this happened in March, you know, it was so abrupt. It was kids

were in school one day and then schools told them did not come back the next day.

And American parents were operating on this, let's just do anything we can to balance our responsibilities

and get our kids through the end of the school year. What seemed to be a temporary crisis is going to be an ongoing

disaster.

Here's what's really happening.

The pandemic has put a damper on productivity for working parents.

It's even worse depending on what type of work you do and if you're single parenting. The initial research already

shows female workers who are also moms are shouldering the child care

burden during the pandemic. You know this study that came out of the University College London recently that said the care and homeschooling during the pandemic.

Let me just say that again one more time.

Mothers are 47% more likely than fathers to quit their jobs.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the upcoming fall season could create an even deeper divide

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