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PHI National Policy Director Steven Edelstein was featured as a guest commentator Feb. 9 on McKnight’s. In “Economic stimulus package should invest in direct-care workforce,” Edelstein presses for new investments in eldercare as Congress continues to debate the specifics of an economic recovery package.

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If the job numbers coming out of Long Island are any indication, then healthcare’s reputation as a “recession-proof” industry is well warranted. As reported by Newsday on Feb. 2 (“Health care seen as recession-proof job sector“), figures from New York’s Department of Labor show Long Island adding 2,500 education and health service jobs in the [...]

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Twenty national organizations, including PHI, have sent a letter to members of Congress and President Barack Obama, recommending a series of initiatives to address the current and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America.

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Two recent commentaries, one by a policy analyst with the National Women’s Law Center and the other by a feminist economist, draw attention to the future of the direct-care workforce and the place of women in the federal economic recovery plan.

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A group of 25 organizations, representing consumers and their families, direct-care workers, and health care professionals, has joined together to form the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) in order to address the immediate and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America. PHI President Steven Dawson has been named co-convener of the group along with [...]

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Caregiving Well Positioned to Boost Economy PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Download press release (pdf) New York, February 4, 2009— Noting that low-income women are left out of the current economic recovery plans that focus exclusively on shovel-ready projects, PHI is asking Congress to expand its job creation program to include direct-care services for elders [...]

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