Last week, I traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, to meet with workers, community organizations and local officials and understand how the city is getting organized to center gender and racial equity as we emerge from the pandemic. We met with Mayor Randall Woodfin, who earlier this year launched an initiative – Embrace Mothers – aimed at supporting single moms with a $375 monthly stipend over one year to ease their financial hardship and help offset the caregiving penalties they face as single parents in the workforce.
I got to meet Kimber Washington, who talked about the relief she felt to b
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