PHI President Steven Dawson’s letter to the editor highlighting home care workers’ low wages and lack of health coverage was published in today’s New York Times. Read the full story

For the fourth time in three years, the New York Times published an editorial calling for overturning the 1975 federal labor regulation that exempts agency-employed home care workers from federal minimum wage and overtime protections that were enacted over 70 years ago. Read the full story

Evelyn Coke

Evelyn Coke, the New York home care attendant responsible for a 2007 US Supreme Court case challenging the exclusion of home care workers from minimum wage and overtime protections, has died at age 74, according to an article in the New York Times.

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