Among many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted American workers is the need to look after children who are learning remotely from home. New results from the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study indicate parents with children in remote-only or hybrid learning situations are much less likely to be employed full time than those whose children are learning entirely at school — 47% vs. 71%, respectively.
Parents whose children are engaged in distance learning are significantly more likely than those whose kids are at school full time to be out of the labor force altogether — 24% vs. 15%. They are also about twice as likely to be working part time (18% vs. 9%) or unemployed (11% vs. 5%).
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