Friday, 15 January 2021, 10:33 am
Both
here and abroad, the Covid-19 economic recession has been
disastrous for women workers and their families. In
November, young women below 30 in particular were
feeling the consequences :
Of concern is the
sustained deterioration in youth employment, particularly
for females, with a -4.3% pa drop in filled jobs for females
aged below 30, and a 3.9%pa drop for males aged below
30.
Basically, the pandemic has cut a swathe
through the female work force formerly employed in tourism,
hotel and hospitality work, and in the cinemas whose
audiences have been decimated by the virus. This has obvious
effects on sole parent households and on households where
Pastor who left ministry to help her children with virtual school wants to return, but isn’t sure how
Pastor Meredith Dodd tried really hard to keep working during the pandemic. Her three children each with varying degrees of special needs were doing virtual learning at home and needed her assistance.
And Dodd’s parishioners in the congregation of Bryn Mawr United Methodist Church in Seattle were on her mind, too.
“I have people in the parish who desperately needed help paying rent or utilities and were really concerned about eviction. There’s tremendous need in the neighborhood, at the same time there was tremendous need at home,” she told CNN.
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Just as Congress has finally eked out a $900 billion stimulus bill, President-elect Joe Biden and many Democrats are calling for more aid for the economy. And they have a point.
After months of back-and-forth, Republicans and Democrats were finally able to strike a deal on a new Covid-19 relief package, which both houses of Congress passed on Monday. The bill is much less ambitious than many progressives and prominent Democrats believe is necessary to help people and get the economy back on track, and they’re already setting the stage to battle for more.
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