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How women hit hard by pandemic should use their $1,400 stimulus check and other benefits
Tami Burch, from Chanute, Kansas, is a single mother who says she had no option but to leave her job amid the coronavirus pandemic because she could not afford childcare for her two children after school. It was the scariest thing I have ever done to leave my job, Burch told CBS This Morning.
She is not alone. Nearly three million women have left the workforce during the pandemic. A Financial Times survey shows that two in five working mothers have taken a step back from work, or are considering stepping away. Many cite childcare as the reason for their departure.