COVID-19, Latino Working-Age Adults, and Citizenship

Press Release

Field Workers

 

Farm workers provide a good example of how age, citizenship, essential jobs, and COVID-19 intersect to deadly effect. In this report, we provide a demographic profile to give context showing that the largest number of Latino non-citizens in California are concentrated in the age groups 35-49 and 50-64.

They are more likely to be employed as essential workers, and therefore are more likely to be exposed to COVID-19.

Read the full report:

COVID-19, Latino Working-Age Adults, and Citizenship.pdf