half as much support to feed our families, to pay our rent to pay our bills and it is not acceptable. explain to me why this has remained so intransigent? i mean a big part is because the law hasn t progressed in the way it needs to. we saw this slide back in 2020 because the largest demographic of women workers who were pushed out of the workforce were latinas, and it s because we don t have the kinds of policies in place to support latina workers. there are as a report that was published last year by the national partnership for women and girls and they told us that 51% of working latinos across four countries do not have paid sick leave. so many latinas are in workplaces where they re not provided sickly, care, policies that would support them to take leaves, flexible scheduling, many latino workers are not working in the kinds of more privileged position that would allow people to work from home. the paycheck fairness act has not been passed in congress. you know we are now loo
president biden in office. we seen overwhelmingly some voters vote democrat. how do you assess president biden s success with the latino community. what remains a challenge for him? because that are the essential workers, much like the black community of the country, covid really hit us hard. we had some of the highest mortality rates and we were the first to get fired and the last to get hired, the first to lose our savings and many of us seen we are close to losing homes and apartments. so the relief act was a huge, huge help when it comes to every day lives of working latinos. in that regard, it s good. the failure in passing the bbb is a big hit. we,ment, you know, lost so much in the 2008 recession and lost even more because of covid that we really need this to jump start our personal family incomes, to be able to restart our businesses, invest in our