La Alianza Domestic Worker Surveys Quarterly Report

After an incredibly turbulent year in 2025, domestic workers navigated a volatile labor market alongside the rest of the workforce at the start of 2026. Patterns of non-existent job creation and protracted unemployment mirrored difficulties reported by domestic workers in recent months.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) has been surveying Spanish-speaking domestic workers since March 2020 and, in the last half of 2025, these workers reported record-high economic insecurity, deteriorating employment and job conditions, and a spike in poor mental health. Whether these crisis conditions would further erode, solidify, or show signs of recovery at the start of the new year was an open question.

This report finds that conditions for Spanish-speaking domestic workers showed some improvements in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the last two quarters, but that conditions today were still on par with or worse than conditions one year ago.

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