Mothers’ Preferences for COVID and Post-COVID Child Care Background and Policy Proposals
Mom Congress
The Urgent COVID Child Care Need:
Women make up a significant portion of the labor force. Their employment is critical to the U.S. economy.
64% of non-Black mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in their households.
84% of Black mothers are the primary or co-breadwinner in their households.
1 in 5 working-age adults is now unemployed because COVID upended their child care arrangements according to a recent Census Bureau and Federal Reserve study.