A new report finds if unemployment climbs to 20 percent, 25 million people could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance under a base case scenario, and in a high scenario, 43 million would lose employer-sponsored coverage.
Many nonelderly adults have reported that their families lost jobs or income, spent less on food, used up savings, and increased credit card debt because of the pandemic, and more than one in five adults reported food insecurity in the past month. The pandemic is hitting low-income families and people of color the hardest.
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to upend the well-being of many Hispanic adults and their families. This report explores the pandemic’s impact on family employment, financial security, and material hardship among nonelderly Hispanic adults by family citizenship status.
The pandemic’s scale has
brought philanthropic innovation to the forefront of the national response. Faith Mitchell, Urban Institute fellow, describes key challenges and opportunities in creating a successful philanthropic-government partnership.
