Childcare Remains Out of Reach for Millions in 2021, Leading to Disproportionate Job Losses for Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Families

Mothers with justice‐involved sons: Socioeconomic impacts of COVID‐19 by neighborhood disorder in the United States

“…In the Child in Home sample, Latina mothers were significantly more likely to report having had their childcare impacted than White mothers, but there was no significant difference between Black mothers and Latina mothers in childcare impacts. This findings lends support to other research that suggests childcare impacts affect minority women greater than White women (Koltai et al, 2021). Interestingly, there were no significant differences in COVID-19 impacts between Latinas and Black mothers in the Child in Home sample, suggesting that minority women who do have children in the home are impacted by the pandemic to a greater extent than White women with children.…”

“…First, in the early months of the pandemic, women were more likely to be laid off than men (Dias et al., 2020 ). The gender gap in unemployment may be partially explained by the fact that women are more likely to be employed in the three nonfarm business sectors most harshly hit by the pandemic: leisure and hospitality, education and health services, and retail trade (Krogstad & Lopez, 2020 ). Second, women with young children exited the labor force at the highest rates, even higher than fathers (Landivar et al., 2020 ).…”

“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure

“…In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a national emergency in the United States, and millions of families and children across the country were left without child care or experienced limitations with child care ( Koltai et al, 2021 ). Like many states, most Ohio child care programs were shut down in March 2020 due to COVID-19.…”