NJ Gov. Murphy: ‘Learning Loss Has Been Overwhelming. Mental-Health Impact Has Been Overwhelming’

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MURPHY: "Listen, learning loss has been overwhelming. Mental health impact has been overwhelming, with kids, with educators, with staff, with families. So, we have done everything we can and we will continue to safely and responsibly always, but to keep schools open, number one. And that is our overwhelming objective. Secondly, I think the comments about lack of progress at Washington also bother folks. We're doing a lot of what they had tried to do in Congress in New Jersey. We know it works. We know expanding pre-K works, we know expanding childcare, access to community college, whatever it might be, we know those steps have huge positive impacts on lives, and I can appreciate frustration with folks who say, you know what, why if we know something works, are we not getting it done across the country? So, I don't begrudge any of that frustration for one second."