A new survey finds Latinos are shouldering much more of the coronavirus burden, due to a lack of insurance and jobs that are largely of a frontline nature leaves.
, which finds many impoverished Latinos crowded into small apartments. “Sometimes it’s big families, but others it’s just a group of adults trying to make ends meet,” she says. “It makes it so hard to isolate and quarantine folks.”
campaigns manager for Mijente, a national social justice organization that along with The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement explores the plight of Latinos inAcross the country, only 49% of Latinos have access to private health care, the lowest of any demographic group, the report finds. Some 70% have no assets in a retirement account.
When coronavirus first started to blanket the nation, politicians and pundits alike noted that a virus does not discriminate between victims. But the country’s widening income inequality gap in fact has led to many minority groups paying a higher price.Coronavirus layoffs disproportionately hurt black and Latino workers
For many Latinos who already live day to day, the threat of getting the virus is second only to the fear of falling into abject poverty, says Orson Aguilar, executive director of the UnidosUS Action Fund, a political and civil rights organization.
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