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Working mothers
Families are paying an average of 30% more for child care than they did in 2019
Oct 31, 2023
Costs have reached new heights just as federal subsidies that helped providers cover staffing and other expenses come to an end.
Women's return to work a stop-and-start struggle
Oct 6, 2022
The availability of affordable child care is limiting mothers' options for returning to full-time work after the pandemic.
A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers' employment
Apr 2, 2021
The Brookings Institution says those mothers, especially Black and Latinx women, are still struggling to regain jobs.
"And then it occurred to me that I could just make the box of supplies myself"
by
Alli Fam
Nov 17, 2020
Teacher Nia Grigsby started The School Box Toolbox when her own daughters were running low on supplies early in the pandemic.
1 in 5 parents quit job or took leave to deal with remote school
Oct 23, 2020
Pulling back from work can put parents behind indefinitely on their career tracks.
The cost of being a working mother? $18,000 a year, study says
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Erika Beras
May 10, 2019
The pay gap is even greater for women of color.