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I’ve made a lot of graduation speeches in my time, but the one I made at the beginning of this month was really special. I wasn’t asked to talk to the LNAs graduating from the Indiana County Technical Center in Indiana, Pennsylvania, because of my job title or official role. I wasn’t asked by an [...]

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The July issue of The Gerontologist is devoted to findings from the Better Jobs Better Care research and demonstration project. BJBC, which began in 2002 and ended in 2006, was the largest initiative in the nation ever created to address the high vacancy and turnover rates of direct-care workers by improving the quality of direct-care [...]

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A nursing home owner in the Bronx was arrested for failing to provide worker’s compensation for her employees. According to the August 7 issue of Crain’s New York Business, Helen Sieger was the first person in the state to be charged under the law, which makes it a felony for employers to fail to have [...]

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Subscribe to the HCHCW newsletter We’ve been covering news from our Health Care for Health Care Workers (HCHCW) campaign in PHI’s news stories and Quality Care/Quality Jobs newsletter ever since the campaign started years ago — and we’ll keep on covering the really big stories, since PHI’s beat is whatever affects the direct-care workforce. But now HCHCW has launched [...]

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ANCOR is inviting direct support professionals and their supporters to rally in Washington, D.C. next month to show their support for H.R. 1279 (pdf). DSPs to DC will convene workers, people with disabilities and their family members, providers, and advocates to “deliver a unified message about the direct support workforce crisis and the need to [...]

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 Wages for personal and home care aides have never been high – and they’re getting lower nationwide. Between 1999 and 2006, real wages for these workers fell by 4 percent nationwide. State Chart Book on Wages for Personal and Home Care Aides, 1999-2006, (pdf) a new PHI publication by Director of Policy Research Dorie Seavey, looks at [...]

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