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Alicia Sasser Modestino Offers Insight on the Struggles of Working Parents During the Pandemic

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PBS News Hour featured a video panel on the struggles working parents are facing amidst the childcare shortage in the pandemic. The panel features many working women sharing their own experiences and struggles to balance caring for their children while still working. Alicia Sasser Modestino also joins in the panel to discuss her research results and how the lack of child care during the pandemic has impacted working parents, especially working mothers.

Alicia Sasser Modestino discusses her work further in this Washington Post article she wrote. Her work is also mentioned in this Reuters article.

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