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Pa. women who leave jobs to care for kids are being wrongfully denied unemployment Ellie Silverman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © STEVEN M. FALK/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Maegen Wagner, 39 with her daughter Elizabeth, 7 and son Ryan, 10. When her Berks County school board voted in August to send Maegan Wagner and her colleagues back into classrooms, Wagner knew she had no choice: She would have to quit the job she loves. The assistant teacher’s 7-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, has Down syndrome. The family pediatrician said it was too dangerous for Elizabeth to return to school or day care. Wagner is a single parent and Elizabeth’s sole caregiver, making it unsafe for the 39-year-old educator to work in a building where the coronavirus could spread, and impossible to work in-person during hours when she would need to watch her daughter and her 10-year-old son.

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