lots of day-cares and summer camps that are not operating and parents are left consisten wondering whl fall. along with two of my colleagues, i conducted a survey of 2500 working parents between mother's day and father's day and mid-june. we found that 13% of working parents had either lost a job or reduced hours specifically due to the lack of child care. it was about a 50/50 split between those who had lost a job and those who reduced hours. in addition to that, on average parents lost about eight hours a day or of one full working day per week in order to address their children's needs. so this is a very serious shock to the ability of parents to be able to juggle family and work and it severely impacts the economy reopening because roughly a third of the workforce is comprised of working parents who have children under the age of 18. molly: you know, this is something that's been very hard for the government and all the different parties involved to balance. they want to get kids back to school. they want to do it safely. here's one comment from vice president mike pence in a recen