The issue of child care has been largely absent from the debates and campaign rallies at a time when parents seem to care about it most.
But as with so many topics, the pandemic has made it political.
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2/ In Dec. 2019, Ivanka Trump convened more than a dozen legislators and governors — Republicans and Democrats — at the White House to discuss the country's ailing child care system. The nation had a "historic chance" to pass paid family leave and child care reform, she said.pic.twitter.com/ZfJYwe2wjz
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3/ Three months after that discussion, the child care system would suffer a nearly fatal encounter with the coronavirus, one that forced daycare closures across the country and thrust more working women than ever into the scenario Trump had outlined just weeks before.
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4/ Today, eight months after the onset of the pandemic: — 1 in 5 child care providers are still out of work — Thousands of child care centers have closed — As many as half of the nation's child care slots are at risk of being losthttps://bit.ly/34FQn2e
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5/5 But in a Trump administration that once identified child care as a top priority, the topic has become more of a footnote.
What happened?
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