A long legacy of exploitation and occupational segregation of workers of color has disproportionately concentrated Latinx workers in low-wage industries. Understanding the disproportionate unemployment risk facing Latinx people can inform strategies to help workers hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis.
On Friday, May 15, join the Urban Institute’s Sarah Rosen Wartell and Faith Mitchell and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Julie Morita as they discuss how health philanthropy can help communities recover from the pandemic.
During the COVID-19 crisis, some students are learning that getting by doesn't just depend on the size of the safety net but the size of the holes. For students like Adam Ramsdell of Virginia, campus closures have had implications beyond academics, costing them jobs and restricting their access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
Now more than ever, transit decisions must be made with equity in mind to ensure vulnerable residents and workers are able to get where they need to go safely.
In the early weeks of the pandemic, about one in four nonelderly adults with children younger than 19 and about one in four with children younger than 6 reported their households were food insecure in the previous month.
