Barriers to Care: Why Humboldt's Latinx Population is Being Hit Disproportionately Hard by COVID-19
by
Iridian Casarez
on
July 12, 2020 at 10:01AM
“With the decline of service industry jobs, we are looking at additional financial, economic and housing barriers to families that may not be able to access state and federal benefits or safety net programs due to their documentation status,” Kein says. And the disease and reverberating impacts have only exacerbated existing inequities, as Kein notes that some of the families her program serves are “mixed-status” families — families that have documented and “questionably documented” people in their households — and thus may have been left out of the federal stimulus funding measures and don’t receive other benefits.
