A survey of those targeted for the Excluded Workers Fund—primarily undocumented immigrants—showed recipients benefited from the program and still experience hardships in the pandemic’s wake. Multilingual summary fact sheets are available.
With nearly half reporting food insecurity, adults in mixed-status families are more likely to report material hardships than adults in families with other immigration statuses or in all-US-born families.
Roughly 3 in 10 adults in immigrant families with children who have incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty level reported avoiding noncash government benefits in the past year because of immigration-related concerns.
The Urban Institute will host a hybrid event on March 21 to launch an initiative to elevate health care inequities as a national priority and build momentum for key remedies and structural reforms.
