cat: heidi lohman and her wife, marenda chamberlain, live in portland, oregon, with their 2-year-old eidi is a high school counselor and marenda is an electrician. when they began their child care search, they were shocked by what they learned. heidi she was born in 2018. and : some of the places i toured were touring for the 2021 school year. so, it was even like a year-plus down the road. so it was a scramble. cat eventually, they found a : program that cost nearly as much as their mortgage, and then covid hit. >> i had to play myself off for about four months. as essential workers, they later cat: -- catch: as essential workers, they later found an opening at a center, but it wasn't a great fit. heidi it was for four days a : week, and we were paying $1, 650 a month, which was ” that did exceed our mortgage. it's absolutely not sustainable. i don't think that working families should have to this juggle. and i don't know how some families do it. cat: before the pandemic, nearly 70 percent of children in the u.s. under the age of 6 lived in households where all parents worked. durin