>> and get myself overwhelmed. >> reporter: single mom michelle perez worked retail for yes.with her kids at home doing virtual school, she couldn't work the hours she used to. that's why she was laid off. >> my son was supposed to start kindergarten so i could actually go back to school and start working more. but here we are. trying to learn as much as i try. it's notororking. >> rr: so how are you getting by? >> my roommate, and so he isel actually compltaking care of us for the most part through all of this.ha and, you know,is very hard to kind of accept because i kind of feel like, you know, i'm not ngntributing to my family at all and then i'm putim in this position that he also shouldn't be in. >> reporter: women account for two-thirds of the job .sses in reta the economic implications, in stevenson's view? >> i think we are creating a system with worse inequality than we already have today. and we're already in a pretty unequal society. >> reporter: michelle perez and her kids have a long road ahead. >> this was supposed to be the time where i was able to really start

in october, retail worker and single mom of two michelle perez s let go. >> because it was no longervenient for them to actuallyt accommthe schedule that worked for me. >> reporter: gabriela villagomez-morales, also single, worked at a daycare center until it closed in march. >> i think if it wasn't for my probably be out intreeti'll with my kids. >> reporter: when travel to maui halted, so too did jessica oyanagi's tourist-depeent photography business. >> i never thought at 40 i'd be on unemployment, food stamps, living with my parents at this age at this time of my life. >> reporter: just some of the faces of the so-called "she- cession." >> in the 2008 recession, people called it a man cession because it was men's jobs that went first. that's because we were losing jobs and construction and finance, places where men tend to dominate. >> reporter: economist betsey stevenson says the gender dimension of this recession different. >> we lost jobs in retail and leisure and hospitality and in hospitals and health care services. and those are all jobs where women hold the majority of the

there are competent folks that have been put forward to the administration, javier desars, tom perez, michelle grisham for the department of justice and health and human services and our expectation is that his cabinet really reflects the diversity of america and we need more hispanics in the top cabinet positions. >> so you're saying he does need to do more in your eyes? >> yes, he does need to do more, especially with hispanic cabinet individuals in the top positions. >> congressman ruiz, we appreciate you joining us this morning. again, we appreciate the work you do in the community to treat people right now dealing with coronavirus. we look forward to speaking to you again. >> thank you. >>> all right. we have breaking news on the economy. new jobless claims just released. what does this mean heading into the holidays? next. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> okay. we do have some breaking news. layoffs remain high as the pandemic rages across america. cnn crew chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with the new unemployment numbers. what are they, christina?

caucus is pushing biden to pick california ag xavier becerra or dnc chair tom perez as attorney general. new mexico governor michelle liu han grisholm as hhs secretary. and by the way, she was on this program the other night. would any of those choses go in addressing these concerns? >> oh, absolutely. there has never been a latino -- actually, that's wrong. the george w. bush's attorney general was a latino. he was on chris cuomo's show last night. but, you know, let's put things into context, though. he was getting asked this question, joe biden, with his vice president-elect the first african american indian woman child of immigrants to be vice president. there is no bigger job than a president can pick other than his vice president, and i think we should as we ask for more, which we should, as we press for more, which we should, and which joe biden admitted, let us also just take a look besides him and see the amazing woman that just shattered glass ceilings. and what he said, his response was exactly right. their group should be pushing. native americans voted for him 97%. and helped deliver. so did latinos. bl