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This paper introduces the special issue on race, child welfare, and child well-being. Recent findings demonstrate that, compared to white children, black and Latino children are more likely to have experienced poverty and food insufficiency, to have had parents lose their jobs, and to be exposed to distance learning and school closures during the pandemic. Consider that around three-fourths of black and Latino children facing food insufficiency during the pandemic also experienced food insufficiency prior to the onset of the pandemic.

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In latewhen we began working on this Special Issue related to racial inequalities in child welfare and child well-being, we knew well that racial injustice was deeply entrenched into the public institutions of the United States. Black families, in particular, were more likely to encounter a child welfare system, criminal justice apparatus, education system, and a welfare state that each offered more hurdles and less support source for comparable white families. We had little idea at the time, however, of how the events of would only magnify and exacerbate those injustices.

In spring ofthe COVID pandemic prompted record levels of unemployment in the USA, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and widespread economic despair. And as with most crises in the USA, the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic did not hit evenly across race and ethnicity.

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Black workers who lost their job are less likely than white workers to receive unemployment compensation, while non-citizens—a group that is heavily Latino in the USA—were barred from receiving stimulus checks during the crisis Parolin The Issue Of Child Welfare al. Levels of food insufficiency among children—and black and Latino children in particular—are at alarming rates Ziliak Asian Americans faced elevated Thf of physical harassment and discrimination Gover et al. During the start of the new school year here autumnAsian, Latino, and black children were far more likely than white children to be exposed to school closures and distance learning, potentially exacerbating educational outcomes Parolin and Lee ; Smith and Reeves ; Van Lancker and Parolin And each of these statistics, of course, only covers the living, Chiild we must keep in mind that black and Latino individuals were more likely to die of COVID-induced symptoms in at least the initial months of the pandemic Sze et al.

Here strand of economic historians argues that the economic shock imposed by a pandemic can contribute to reduced socio-economic inequality. While it may eventually contribute to shifts in political preferences for more redistribution and a stronger welfare state, its short-run consequences, at least in the USA, have been to place a magnifying glass on the socio-economic challenges that black and Latino families, in particular, continue to face in the USA Rather than serving as The Great Leveler, the COVID pandemic has, to this point, acted as The Great Revealer.

First, the pandemic has revealed to a broader audience that the American welfare state does not adequately support low-income families, nor does it treat black and Latino families the same as white families. In the initial months after the pandemic, for example, media coverage and public attention were largely focused on the dysfunctions present within state-run unemployment insurance UI The Issue Of Child Welfare