americans missed work due to child care challenges. many families being pushed to the brink with kids out sick with the flu, rsv, or covid. the outbreaks are happening as day care centers and public schools nationwide struggle to stay fully staffed. when infections soared earlier this month, some school districts in tennessee and kentucky shut down. we have sending a lot of children homesick and we got to the point where we couldn t sustain being in school. experts say to avoid the child care crunch, expand your search area to include more towns and zip codes. and consider getting on a wait list, because openings can come up unexpectedly. and ask your network of friends, neighbors, and co-workers, for suggestions. across the country, a balancing act for parents caught between finding care and high costs. kathy park, nbc news. and still ahead, what one school with a traumatic past is doing to right the wrongs that
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as you can imagine, because of the child care crunch. and i think we re finally seeing women catch up. reporter: but overall, the american academy is not free and clear of the pandemic. you have supply chain problems that are leading to inflation and shortages. you have consumers worried about the price of gas or about the price of groceries. reporter: and tonight, at least one analyst is warning of what he calls a potential hard landing in the housing market, wolf. mark zandi of moody s says housing prices could really drop in the next few months. we shall see. brian todd, thank you very much. let s discuss with the mayor-elect of new york city, democrat eric adams. mayor-elect, thank you so much for joining us, congratulations on your win. as new york city and indeed the entire nation right now seems to be recovering from this pandemic, you write in a new piece for cnn.com, and i m quoting you now, you write, when our cities succeed, america prospers. do you think lawmakers h
taxes so that single mom gets child care support, or so that we can make sure that our communities aren t inundated by wildfires and floods and that we re doing something about climate change for the next generation, that s an argument that is unsustainable. he said he counts himself among those wealthy people who can pay more to fund this agenda. what s at stake? crucial funding for families when it comes to child care. day care subsidies for middle class families, up to nearly $15,000 a year. two free years of pre-k, two free years of community college, 12 weeks of paid leave to tarke care of a sick family member. some women, remember, dropped out of the labor market during the pandemic because of all these health and child care and education challenges at home. so this timing really interesting here as you ve got people talking about the child care crunch, getting women back