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October, 15, 2004 – With Medicaid costs rising rapidly, state policymakers are understandably reluctant to increase wages for Medicaid-funded direct-care workers, even when those wages are too low to lift workers and the families they support out of poverty.This creates a dilemma not only for workers but for employers and policymakers, since low wages make [...]

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October 13, 2004 – In a striking display of the power and promise of the growing movement to improve job quality for direct-care workers, more than 130 long-term care workers, consumers, employers and advocates gathered in Washington, D.C. for the national conference of the Direct Care Alliance, which is staffed by PHI. For the rest [...]

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