The price of being ‘essential’: Latino service workers bear brunt of coronavirus For Lupe Martinez, who does the laundry at a Riverside nursing home, each day presented an agonizing choice: Go to work and risk getting the novel coronavirus or lose the $13.58-an-hour paycheck her family relies […]
April 3, 2020 U.S. Latinos among hardest hit by pay cuts, job losses due to coronavirus By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Luis Noe-Bustamante Hispanics are more likely than Americans overall to say they or someone in their household has experienced a pay cut or lost their job […]
The curious case of Latinos and Covid-19 Apr 27, 2020 at 8:06 am By Esmy Jimenez Covid-19 cases are showing up among Latinos and people of color at higher rates across the United States. Initial data from the Washington State Department of Health shows Latinos account for nearly 30% […]
By Miriam Jordan and Richard A. Oppel Jr. Published May 7, 2020Updated May 9, 2020 Dr. Eva Galvez works as a family physician for a network of clinics in northwestern Oregon, where low-income patients have been streaming in for nasal swabs over the past several weeks to test […]
Virus Is Twice as Deadly for Black and Latino People Than Whites in N.Y.C. By Jeffery C. Mays and Andy Newman Published April 8, 2020 Updated May 7, 2020 at https://www.nytimes.com Officials revealed that disparity on Wednesday as they announced that 779 more people in the state had died of […]
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