Latino parents with low incomes were especially hard-hit by COVID-19 pandemic-related closures and disruptions to their jobs and to their child care arrangements—challenges exacerbated by Hispanic workers’ structural concentration within industries and occupations that offer few benefits and flexibilities needed to respond to child care disruptions. This brief—the first national portrait of the industries and occupations that employ Latino parents with low incomes after the pandemic—presents findings on employment patterns among these parents and on workplace flexibilities adopted (or not) by the industries in which they are employed, and discusses potential programmatic and policy interventions to support family well-being and child care needs moving forward.

