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Maria and Julio are joined by Chabeli Carrazana, economy reporter at The 19th, and Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, for a discussion on COVID-19\\u2019s impact on women in the workforce. They discuss government efforts to curb the growing \\u201cshecession\\u201d and the pandemic\\u2019s toll on mental health for parents and healthcare workers, the majority of whom are women. We also hear from Milagros Cancel, a Puerto Rican mother of three and founder of Comit\\xe9 Tim\\xf3n People and Families Chapter NYC.\\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - In her latest for The 19th, Chabeli Carrazana describes the rise of mental health consultation as a means of lowering sky-high expulsion rates in preschools. - \\u201cYou can\\u2019t use food stamps to pay for diapers. You can\\u2019t use a housing voucher to gas up your car or pay a babysitter. But parents will be able to use this money on whatever they need to, stabilizing family finances in a way no other program does,\\u201d writes Annie Lowrey in this piece on the child tax credit in The Atlantic.\\xa0 - In this piece for Politico, Megan Cassella breaks down the pandemic\\u2019s impact on women\\u2019s workforce participation, barriers to returning to the labor force, and what the path forward may look like.\\xa0 Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay \\xa0

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