Among low-income parents, more than half did not have enough money to pay for food, or rent or mortgage payments, and more than one in three also struggled to pay for health care and child care in the past 12 months, according to the survey.
, a researcher with Stanford University's Center on Poverty and Inequality who studies child welfare policies.
Among parents at all income levels, Black and Hispanic parents were"especially likely" to say they couldn't afford food and housing,"That's consistent with what we've seen in other research both from us and other research more generally about financial challenges and financial stresses," Horowitz said.
The findings reflect how, on average, Black and Hispanic workers receive lower wages than other racial groupsMain poverty measure hasn't been updated since the 1960sNearly a quarter of all parents said they did not have enough money to pay for medical expenses or health care their family needed, and 1 in 5 said there were times in the past year they could not pay for child care.
"For working parents with younger children who can't be home alone or aren't in school yet that's very much an essential need for parents to be able to work," she said.During the pandemic, taking care of a sick child or dealing with child care closures due to quarantine rules weighed heavily on working parents, Horowitz said.
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