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Alicia Sasser Modestino chats with ABC News on how the new school year will continue to affect mothers amidst the COVID-19 surge

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06/27/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Northeastern professor Alicia Modestino poses for a portrait at Renaissance Park on June 27, 2019. Modestino authored a study on housing affordability in the Greater Boston Area. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Alicia Sasser Modestino (WGSS Executive Committee member, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Urban Affairs and Economics, and Director of Research at the Dukakis Center) sits down with ABC News to discuss how the new school year, amid the rise of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately impact mothers in the United States.

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