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Today we highlight the Wisconsin State Journal’s coverage of the “buffet of bad options” Wisconsin’s working parents face during the pandemic as many schools prepare to resume classes virtually.
“Sacrifice earnings and career advancement to stay home. Hire a nanny, if you can afford it. Lean on elderly relatives. Enroll kids in private schools or expensive day care programs and risk exposing them or others to the disease,” reporter Chris Hubbuch writes.
Meanwhile, online schooling during a childcare crisis “could harm women’s careers, widen the gender pay gap and reduce the number of women serving in business leadership roles,” Shelley K. Mesch reports in a separate story.
Top Stories
No good options: As virus rages, working parents face tough choices — Wisconsin State Journal
Workforce equality could take step back as mothers balance work and child care — Wisconsin State Journal
80 percent of child care providers are back up and running, but finding care is still a struggle — WPR
The summer that wasn’t: COVID-19, virtual DNC dim Milwaukee’s moment in the sun — WPR
What experts say about how to interpret COVID-19 data like positive cases, deaths and hospitalizations — and what to avoid — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The wildcard in UW-Madison’s reopening plan: Student behavior — Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin jobless benefits began with $15 check — Beloit Daily News
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Quotable
“The one way to help parents most is to get the virus under control … The countries that have done that have been able to open schools. There could be things like sending a check to parents to use on tutors or day care or whatever is needed, but Congress hasn’t shown much of an appetite for that. So it really just leaves parents on their own.”
Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times
Data to note
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