{"id":504323,"date":"2026-10-22T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:06:49","slug":"new-unidosus-poll-highlights-financial-challenges-facing-working-class-latino-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504323\/","title":{"rendered":"New UnidosUS poll highlights financial challenges facing working-class Latino families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Rising prices, high housing costs and financial pressures continue to create challenges for families across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A new national poll from UnidosUS highlights the economic struggles facing working-class Latinos and how concerns about affordability extend beyond the Latino community. According to the poll, 68% of working-class Latinos say they feel they are working harder but falling further behind financially.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that 60% of Latino small-business owners say immigration enforcement actions have negatively affected their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Lisette Orellana Engel, director of economic policy at UnidosUS, joined ARC Bakersfield to discuss the findings and what they could mean for working families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Rising prices, high housing costs and financial pressures continue to create challenges for families&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}