While optimism is growing in Nebraska and nationally as vaccinations increase and COVID-19 case counts decline, the fact is the pandemic has caused and continues to cause unprecedented devastation for many.
National and state-level polling and data reflect this reality and show that the pandemic has been particularly harmful to those who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color. A member survey by the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, for example, shows Nebraska nonprofits are seeing skyrocketing numbers of people facing hunger, mental health issues, child care challenges, homelessness, poverty and domestic violence.