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California’s ongoing budget disaster edged nearer to some sort of resolution last week as state lawmakers approved a proposal to close the $25.3 billion gap through a package of 29 pieces of legislation.  The bills included spending cuts, revenue solutions, borrowing, and fund shifts. The state’s In-Home Supportive Services program (IHSS), long recognized as one [...]

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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 27, 2009 Contact: Karen Kahn Director of Communications KKahn@phinational.org 978-740-9844 PHI Establishes New National Policy/Advocacy Office in Washington DC Receives $300,000 in joint funding from The SCAN Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Bronx, NY — PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, [...]

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Carol Rodat, PHI New York Policy Director, testified (pdf) in favor of the Together We Care Act of 2009 and the Earnings and Living Opportunities Act at a Congressional field hearing held in New York last week by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

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The Scan Foundation has released a policy brief titled Long-Term Care in Health Reform: Policy Options to Improve Both (pdf) that presents four distinct policy options for including long-term care support and services in health care reform. The report comes on the heels of a SCAN foundation poll released in early July showing that nearly [...]

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The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a $220 million competitive grant program aimed at training new workers for health care and other high-growth industries. Funded with dollars from the Recovery Act and administered by DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the program will provide grants for both public and private nonprofit entities in order [...]

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An amendment to America’s Affordable Health Choices Act added in the House Education and Labor Committee would require: the development of recommendations for promoting and investing in the direct-care workforce the development of recommendations for assisting states with direct-care workforce plans the creation of a Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel In addition to other [...]

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