RESILIENT BUT NOT RECOVERED - LATINAS IN THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Although the pandemic-induced recession has officially About the Data ended—due in large part to the American Rescue Unless otherwise noted, data in this Plan Act and other robust relief measures enacted fact sheet is from a February 2022 poll in 2020 and 2021—millions of people lost jobs conducted by polling firm GQR and the National Women’s Law Center (the “NWLC and income that they have not yet. [...] The poll includes a nationally the recovery has been uneven: many women— representative base sample of 1,000 particularly Black women, Latinas, and other adults in the United States, in addition women of color—are still struggling to make ends to oversamples of Black women, Latinas, meet, especially in the face of rising costs. [...] In 2022, Sprout Insight in December 2021.3 the National Women’s Law Center partnered with polling firm GQR to hear from Latinas across the country about how they have been faring in the pandemic.1 This analysis captures key findings from that research, highlighting how two years of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected Latinas’ jobs, their finances, their health, and their lives— and detailing the i. [...] For example, Latinas were far more (54.0%) were held by women.4 At its peak in April likely than white men5 to see their hours of paid work 2020, the unemployment rate for Latinas reached reduced during the pandemic and were somewhat less 20.1%, and it remained in the double digits for six likely than white men to find a new job after losing or months in 2020. [...] • A bout two in three Latinas (67%) say they had to • A bout one in seven Latinas (14%) say they delayed take on a lot more household chores and care of or abandoned plans to have children because of family members during the pandemic, compared the pandemic, and nearly one in six Latinas (16%) to 46% of white men.