Historically, food insecurity has been a problem for the Hispanic/Latino population in the
United States. Variations in food insecurity exist among this population by origin …

Rixa Evershed has been an early educator for more than 20 years. She is currently the early
education director at the Nature Nurtures Farm in Olympia, Washington, where children …

This issue brief, the first in the series, provides a brief summary of recent data and historical
context on family structure, employment and income, and geography for Black people with …

This qualitative study examined the child care usage, preferences, and access constraints
experienced by diverse parents and primary caregivers in New Mexico in 2020 and 2021. It …

Significant investments in public early childhood care and education (ECE) have yielded
higher Hispanic enrollment in preschool-age programs, but progress has been uneven and …

Center-based early care and education (ECE) is important for promoting positive early
development and supporting families by providing child care so parents can work. However …

Most Hispanic children under age 18 (57 percent) lived in poor or near-poor households in
2017 1—that is, households with income less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level …

As labor markets in recent decades have become increasingly volatile and precarious, more
workers are susceptible to working conditions that threaten their economic security and thus …

2 as were 35 percent of US-born mothers. Thirteen percent of US-born mothers reported
involuntary part-time work—that is, they could not find a full-time job. Very few (less than 3 …

Hispanic children experience poverty at rates two to three times higher than white children.
Latino households with children, in general, have high parental employment coupled with …