'We need all hands on deck and additional resources,' Rep. Jamaal Bowman said.
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Imagescalling attention to a crisis of loneliness, isolation and lack of connection across the country, Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he was spurred on to call for more funding for the next generation of
The legislation is co-sponsored by Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., and has garnered more than a dozen other Democratic co-sponsors, all of whom are lawmakers of color. MORE: New York officials announce legislation linking mental health issues in teens to social media useThe colleges and universities have also long grappled with less funding than predominantly white schools, Bowman said.
As of 2021, only 8% of the psychological workforce in America was Hispanic, 5% was Black and 3% was Asian, which is disproportionately lower than their share of the population, Bowman's office said. Black children were also more likely than any other group of children to lose a parent or caregiver to COVID-19, federal health officials have said.
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