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When you need your job and your kids need you

Low-income parents often don’t have the luxury of paid family leave. Maureen Perry-Jenkins, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the working conditions of parents who must return to work weeks after giving birth and the challenges they face raising healthy children. Her book is “Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being.”