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Huge news for younger New Yorkers: You’re going back to school-like back, back. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that the NYC public school system, the nation’s largest, will fully reopen in September with no remote options. “You can’t have a full recovery without full strength schools,” he said.
Why’s that? After the abysmal April jobs report, President Biden and some economists argued that greater childcare burdens placed on parents prevented them from getting back to work.
On the other hand, it might not be a factor at all. Job loss among parents accounted for a negligible share of total job loss from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021, according to a recent study from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. No study has measured parents’ stress levels while working four feet from a teen with algebra questions, but we are guessing it’s high.
Looking ahead…the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been authorized in the US for people as young as 12, and while some administrators worry there won’t be enough room for students to social distance, de Blasio expects CDC guidelines around schools to loosen by the fall.
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