“For months, I’ve been muttering about this — in group texts, in secret Facebook groups for moms, in masked encounters when I bump into a parent friend on the street. We all ask one another why we aren’t making more noise. The consensus is that everyone agrees this is a catastrophe, but we are too bone-tired to raise our voices above a groan, let alone scream through a megaphone. Every single person confesses burnout, despair, feeling like they are losing their minds, knowing in their guts that this is untenable.” Deb Perelman in the NYT: In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both. (After several months of being locked in my house, I’ll take the job…)

+ More people will face this dilemma as jobs are added back to the market; 4.8 million were in June. But don’t call it a comeback. As WaPo’s
Philip Bump explains, these numbers don’t take into account that the virus surged as well.

+ The economic news has been great at the top. Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6 Billion to Top Pre-Divorce Record. “His gains — $56.7 billion this year alone — underscore a widening wealth gap in the U.S. during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.”