Is there help in sight? Additionally, Black and Latino businesses struggle to obtain PPP loans. Also, Farm workers and the coronavirus.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21
PROGRAM # 9123 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)

Is there help in sight?

Negotiators in Congress worked over the weekend to finalize a deal on a diminished coronavirus stimulus bill. What is the content of the aid agreement? How much was included in the package for unemployed, troubled renters, hungry people, mixed status immigrant families?

Guests: to be confirmed.

Black and Latino businesses struggle to obtain PPP loans. California’s Latino, Black and Asian neighborhoods benefited less from emergency pandemic crisis loans distributed nationwide through the Paycheck Protection Program. Academic researchers say future federal aid against a pandemic should target businesses in communities of color to curb rising economic inequality. An author of the research explains the conclusions.

Invited: Domingo Rodríguez-Villegas, Director of Research, Latino Policy Initiative, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Farm workers and the coronavirus. Latino farmworkers in an agricultural county in California account for a disproportionate number of Covid-19 cases and deaths. And although they see Covid-19 as a real threat, many continue to go to work even after testing positive and having symptoms because they say they are worried about losing their job, losing their salary or because their employer told them to do so.

Guest: Ana María Mora, Research Assistant, Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Photo: macpa.org

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