These dangerous plans go against the advice of public health experts and economists alike, but perhaps the most glaring hole in them is a complete lack of accounting for child care.
To hear President Donald Trump and his allied governors speak of it, the economy could simply be restarted and reopened from a weeks-long pandemic shutdown with the flick of a switch. But as public health experts and economists have pointed out, efforts to do just that in states like Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee threaten to widen the spread of the virus and worsen its economic impact.
Without child care, parents called back to work, especially in sectors dominated by women, will be stuck at home—regardless of what their governor says. Perennially the most ignored foundation of our economy, child care providers are key to the success of any attempt to restart business as usual.in the U.S. live in families where all available parents are in the workforce.
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