Courtesy of USDA
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Spanish-language survey respondents reported greater pandemic hardships. The pandemic has disproportionately affected certain groups, who experienced record unemployment, mental health challenges and the accumulation of debt. Among Hispanics (of any race), the consequences were even greater for those who responded to surveys in Spanish instead of English.
Early in the pandemic, 8.8 million adults were estimated to have become food insufficient due to pandemic-related changes. Food insufficiency is defined as sometimes or often not having enough to eat. Hispanic households reported higher food insufficiency than White non-Hispanic households in March; this was particularly true among Hispanic Spanish-language respondents.
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