Labour
Angela Gismondi February 3, 2021
Many women in the construction industry with children often have to choose between taking a job and taking care of their children.
“Everything goes around the kids,” explained Patricia Tejeda during a recent online discussion hosted by the Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN).
A single mother from the Dominican Republic with two young kids, Tejeda said, “To be able to accept a job offer and also to have the kids in school and pay for care or pay a salary to a caregiver, there is no way that I can do it right now.
“If I don’t have the subsidy and the help there is no way I can pay for rent, car, insurance, food, the basics.”
bo boars and all of that. you invest money in that now, it creates trades jobs, create manufacturing jobs and it builds a foundation for long-term economic growth. i mean, we were the we had the best infrastructure in the world in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and as a result, we had the most prosperous country in the world and they re related that just brings up, what kind of country are we going to leave our kids? we re going to leave them a rag tack operation that simply does not fix anything. i guarantee you, i guarantee you, people are going to cross bridges in the next five years and they re going to die in america. that s how dire this situation subpoe is. and in your state of ohio, there s some pretty tough numbers there, because the federal money hasn t come. now, you ve got only 14 employees covering 109 dams. 42% of your state s roads are in poor or mediocre condition. 4,300 bridges are structurally