Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
COVID-19 has had a disparate impact on different racial and ethnic groups throughout the United States. In Allentown, Pennsylvania, the state’s third largest city, the proportion of the population identifying as Non-Hispanic Black or Latinx is significantly associated with an increase in COVID-19 cases within city wards. Introduction Although all people are biologically susceptible to […]
Women of color are more likely to be working essential jobs without PPE, raising children who are unable to attend schooling by computer, or incarcerated in the jails increasingly overrun by COVID-19. However, their businesses are less likely to receive government aid addressing the pandemic. We are only beginning to understand the full economic […]