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Economic fallout from pandemic disproportionately hits Latinas

CBS News Economic fallout from pandemic disproportionately hits Latinas Last Updated Mar 3, 2021 7:09 PM EST Esperanza Hernandez and her two daughters are living in a small apartment with a shower curtain used to create a bedroom. She is one of the millions of Latinas in the U.S. who are facing hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.  I ve always lived in the shadows, Hernandez said.  She lived in the shadows, but she was able to make ends meet. Hernandez, who is undocumented, has always worked full time. In November, she became ill with COVID-19 and spent three weeks in the intensive care unit. Her 19-year-old daughter Andrea, who was born in the U.S., now earns the family s only income while also attending college. 

Column: 2021 is going to be a bounce-back year in Richland County

Some call the start of a New Year a new beginning. Blank pages. Fresh canvas. The reality is the turn of a calendar page into 2021 simply marks the man-made passage of time. Nothing is true today that was false on Dec. 31, 2020. We cannot check our problems and challenges at the door of the old year as we enter the new one. If I have learned anything in my near 60 years on this Earth, the continuance of time and its ongoing issues are are incontrovertible facts.   My talented colleague, Katie Ellington, offered a wonderful year-in-review earlier this week, a piece that revealed the huge, caring hearts of this community, allowing us to weather the storm of the past 12 months together.

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