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January Jobs Report is a Huge Win
President Joe Biden and his administration deserve a victory lap.
Wherever they look, there has been little but bad news lately for the working-class heroes of America.
Dealing with the ongoing trials of Covid19, and all its attendant disasters, has hit the working poor hardest. Many who are essential workers spent past two years putting themselves in harm’s ways while others worked remotely from home and ordered takeout.
Working-class, essential worker parents have had to scramble for two years as periodic and ongoing shut-downs have shuttered public schools for weeks and months at a time. Finding child care has been hard, especially during a pandemic. Coping with the educational and social losses their children have experienced is even harder.
Remote learning was an unqualified disaster. As might be expected, many K-12 students do not have the self-disciple, not to mention the attention span, to sit behind a computer for hours on end. Many working-class and economically disadvantaged families lacked even the most basic computer equipment required for their children to properly attend online classes in any case.
Working class parents struggled while wealthier families with the resources to do so sent their children to private and parochial schools, most of which remained largely open…