Uninsurance increased from 6 to 8 percent among citizen children with any noncitizen parents between 2016 and 2019. This reversed much of the coverage gains experienced between 2013 and 2016.
Among the eight inaugural Equity Scholars is Diana Guelespe, an expert in community-based participatory research with immigrant and refugee communities.
Half of adults in California immigrant families with low incomes reported their families lost work or income during the pandemic, 1 in 3 experienced food insecurity, and 3 in 10 avoided safety net programs in 2020 because of immigration concerns.
This examination of the Greater Washington Community Foundation’s $26 million response to COVID-19 provides insight into how direct cash transfers can be a speedy and equitable response to populations hit hardest by a crisis and excluded from federal relief.
Key elements of our national child care subsidy system may not account for the barriers Black, Latino, and immigrant families face. But states can take steps to address systemic inequities in their child care system.
