A Brookings Institution study found that since the start of the pandemic, one in six households in the United States has young children who aren’t getting enough food, so I asked Francis about hunger. She acknowledged that there must be hungry children but added: “If people knew kids were hungry, they would help. The community would step up.”On the other end of the United States, Latinos in New York City display a similar resilience. “If we find that someone needs help, we help them,” Raúl González Hernández, who works in a plant nursery and has just recovered from Covid-19, told me. I’ve been long interested in the Hispanic Paradox because I grew up in a mostly white farm town in Oregon that has been devastated by lost jobs.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2020 18:22 UTC