North Carolina’s Snow Day Problem

North Carolina’s Snow Day Problem

The call came at night in early December: Chatham County Schools would be closed the next day due to a forecast of snow. In Pittsboro, Jessie Mewshaw went into action. “First, it’s the conversation with my spouse: ‘Can you stay with them? No, you can’t, you have to go.’” Mewshaw spent the next hour canceling all her clients for the next day. Mewshaw is a speech therapist who works primarily with autistic children and teens. Because she’s paid by…