WAPPP Fellow Alicia Sasser Modestino discusses with Claire Suddath what the future of child care looks like for families across the country if the "Build Back Better" Act isn't passed. 

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To understand the narrative surrounding women’s work better, Emma Ruben spoke to Dr. Leonora Risse, an Economist and Lecturer at RMIT and former WAPPP Fellow.

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Retailers are hoping that this holiday season will be the best ever—or at least the best one in the last couple years. But to do that, they’ll have to hire a lot of temporary workers, fast. "Employers turned to teenagers, and in a lot of cases, lowered employment requirements because they needed to get bodies in the door,” WAPPP Fellow Alicia Sasser Modestino says. “I think we’re going to see a bit of that again now.”
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Deniz Sanin, WAPPP Fellow, investigates whether providing job opportunities to women decreases the violence they face from their partners using the government-induced rapid expansion of the coffee mills in Rwanda in the 2000s as a natural experiment.

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Worker shortages are a big problem for businesses heading into the busy holiday season. Teenagers, who were less likely to be looking for jobs before 2021, are now stepping back into the labor force. “Not a lot of adults want to jump off the sidelines to take these jobs,” said Alicia Modestino, WAPPP Fellow and economist and professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

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There’s a labor shortage plaguing industries across the board, as millions of people left the workforce during the pandemic or are switching careers. A new report from Indeed says interest in child care roles has gone down 15% since before COVID. How long will the pandemic affect working parents?

Axios Re:Cap talks with Northeastern University economics professor and WAPPP Fellow Alicia Modestino about the state of child care in America.

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Alicia Sasser Modestino, WAPPP Fellow, joins Amna Nawaz, and examines how the lack of affordable, quality child care is affecting American families. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed daily life for millions of working parents and pushed the nation’s child care system to the brink of collapse. Out of that turmoil, a heated debate has emerged over what, if anything, can be done to better meet the needs of parents and young children.

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"It's been so unpredictable. In-person school has not been reliable, and working moms had to balance that with trying to have a career," said Alicia Sasser Modesinto, WAPPP Fellow. 

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