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Many schools are closed. Child care options are limited. Parents, particularly single mothers, are struggling to navigate it all. @bcrodriguez reports on how moms are making it work in the pandemic as they wait for action from the federal government.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb 

2/ During the pandemic, many mothers have reduced work hours or left the workforce altogether — in some cases, not by choice — to help their children with remote school learning or to address the logistics of sporadic daycare closures.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb 

6/ These mothers are some of the roughly 13.6 million single parents in the country. During the pandemic, these parents have even fewer options in a fractured child care system, and it has complicated their ability to work.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb 

7/ It remains unclear what the federal government will do to improve the lives of these parents — and by extension, their children. This month’s pandemic relief bill tackles paid leave, child care and food insecurity — but experts say it’s not enough.https://bit.ly/38Ic2aL 

8/ And once a new administration is in office, a popular $775 billion caregiving plan proposed by President-elect Joe Biden may be contingent on whether Democrats can win a pair of U.S. Senate runoffs in early January.https://bit.ly/34voF7P