The Texas Women’s Foundation has been drawing attention to the four “pillars” that produce financial security for women: education, child care, health insurance and housing. | via keranews
The challenges to Texas women's economic stability have been highlighted by the pandemic.
“Every single one of those has been on the front page of the paper and a headline on KERA for the last two and a half years,” she said. “So what I think COVID did is to elevate attention to areas where women and families in Texas were already struggling.” Breaking down care costs and income data by race, Jackson said, shows an even greater burden borne out by non-white Texans.
“They can’t increase their prices because people can’t afford it. And therefore, they can’t pay their workers that much more. And so there’s a big struggle for staffing, and of course you have to have adequate staffing in order to properly care for children.”Roughly 1 in 5 workers in Texas are mothers who need child care to go to work.
Even before the skyrocketing increases in rents and home values, Texas lacked an adequate supply of affordable housing. Now, the challenges are even more severe. In Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, eviction filings have shot up as pandemic-related protections have fallen away and rents have climbed. But Jackson points out that Austin, which has continued to require landlords to give tenants the option to catch up on rent to avoid eviction, still has eviction rates far lower than before COVID hit. She’d like to see that “right to cure” become state law.
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