A three-year data strategy is going to help the department focus resources on the vulnerable and make sure its own programs aren't perpetuating inequity.
TRENTON – When the economy was rocked by the pandemic, women suffered a disproportionate amount of the brunt – many in industries where jobs disappeared when businesses closed, some now driven entirely from the workforce, others juggling their work with kids remote learning.
At a state Department of the Treasury symposium Friday analyzing the impact and how to avoid another ‘she-cession,’ one common cure suggested was better child care.
Echoing the debate in Washington, Emily Martin, vice president for education and workplace justice for the National Women’s Law Center said child care is infrastructure that’s critically needed so families can go to work.