The child-care problem

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

How the lack of child care during the pandemic is hurting families and businesses, from Heather Long. Why women are more affected by this economic downturn, from Samantha Schmidt. And what it’s like to join Alcoholics Anonymous over Zoom, from Sarah Pulliam Bailey.

The pandemic upended child care. It could be devastating for women.

The pandemic’s effect on the economy is not like the “mancession” of 2007.

Alcoholics Anonymous adjusts and adapts during the pandemic.

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0:38.9	Today how the problem of child care is destabilizing the economy
0:43.6	and why women are hurting the most,
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0:52.0	My name is Erin Palmer.
0:53.2	I'm 37 years old.
0:54.9	I am an emergency room nurse at a
0:57.9	level one trauma center and I have one seven year old daughter.
1:05.3	It's been really hard to find consistent child care into a fort.
1:09.3	And I have not until recently let my daughter go back over to my parents' house.
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