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Podcast: So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Episode: 1600: The Childcare Crisis and Negotiating Family Benefits at Work with Danielle Weisberg, Co-Founder of TheSkimm
Description: **Take Farnoosh's quick survey here to enter to win a signed copy of A Healthy State of Panic.** The childcare system is broken and mothers are largely paying the price. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as many as 100,000 Americans have been forced to stay home from work each month because of childcare problems. The economic toll amounts to $122 billion yearly in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue. Guest Danielle Weisberg is co-founder of TheSkimm, and her team has done research into this as well. In its report called The State of Women, the dig...