‘Single “cat ladies” like me are forced to make a devil’s bargain’: A job interviewer asked me if I had children. Is that legal? I would love to have kids — if I could afford it.
“We’re penalized for having children by our employers and by a government that does not give us paid family leave, and we’re also judged if we don’t have children.”
The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday dipped to a seven-month low in a sign of strength for a steadily expanding U.S. economy.