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A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children (19thnews.org)

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Yes, people, including children, are being disappeared to concentration camps but the real victims are the white suburban moms privileged enough to offload their snot nosed brats to other people now being forced to take care of their spawn themselves. Those are the people we should feel bad for, surely.

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[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago

It's extremely concerning for poor mothers, too. For example, in my blood red state, poor mothers are required to work outside the home to receive any meager benefits. The state will assist with child care vouchers which may or not cover the entire cost of child care, but if there are no child care workers or family willing or available, what is to be done? And although a college education for early childhood isn't inexpensive, child care is considered unskilled labor and pays so low, there was already a shortage of childcare workers.

But give mothers benefits to stay home and care for their own children is also unacceptable. Requiring parenting classes without documented abuse is unacceptable.