The Pandemic is Worsening a Long-Running Crisis: Childcare

“"The lack of child care infrastructure is finally impacting white, middle-class mothers who, historically have been able to buy their way out of child crises in this country," said Katie B. Garner, executive director of the International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship. "Mothers impacted by a lack of child care are mostly essential workers who work outside the home, and before the pandemic, many of them barely pocketed enough to cover child care in the first place." ”