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Former President Barack Obama sent out a tweet on Monday afternoon saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified both the racial disparities in American society and the burdens on working mothers.

“The pandemic has magnified the financial insecurity of too many American families, the deep and real racial disparities in our society—and the imbalanced burden on working moms,” Obama said in his tweet.

“We have to create something better for America on the other side of this,” he said.

Obama’s tweet included a link to a New York Times story headlined: “When Mom’s Zoom Meeting is the One That Has to Wait.”

The first paragraphs of the story said: