COVID-19services for childrenparental stressFamilies in the United States experienced tremendous disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study evaluated the relationship of parental stress during the pandemic with interruptions in availability of services (childcare, after-school activities, and ...
"From the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 has disrupted working parents' carefully designed childcare arrangements and forced them to scramble for solutions," said Cheryl Oldham, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. "Now, more than six months into the pandem...
Many employers have transitioned large portions of their workforces to telework arrangements during the COVID-19 crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened the eyes of many employers that with today’s technology, a good telework policy (and a little training) makes telework a much more viable ...
- The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released its new COVID-19 guidelines for K-12 schools and childcare providers for the 2022-23 school year on Wednesday. According to the DOH, the state has reached a new stage of coexisting with COVID-19, and these new guidelines reflect ...
"Education disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is preventing children from getting their education off to the best possible start," said Fore. "Childcare and early childhood education build a foundation upon which every aspect of children's development relies. The pandemic is putting that ...
Childcare programs of respondents did not differ significantly from nonrespondents on baseline county-level COVID-19 death rates or on whether the program ever closed because of COVID-19 before baseline. Respondents were more likely home based (paid childcare provided in a home) rather than center...
The interest rate charged in 2015 by the lender for this program (the Inter-American Development Bank) was around 1.2 percent (https://www.iadb.org/en/idb-finance/interest-rates-and-loan-charges). We use a higher rate of 3 percent to be more in line with the literature: Hendren and ...
The County of San Diego announced yesterday that COVID-19 vaccinations will open Saturday, Feb. 27, to people who work in emergency services, child care and education, and food and agriculture (including grocery stores). This soon-to-be opened tier includes half a million peo...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google's "MyMaps," which offers self-generated directions, has been rediscovered in a big way during the COVID-19 crisis. A sub unit of Google's popular Maps program since 2007, MyMaps allows users to create their own personalized maps, share them with friends ...
Those findings square with data from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org’s recent Women in the Workplace report, which points to high rates of burnout among mothers of young children during the pandemic.2Convenience. Some 28 percent of the parents in our...