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	<description>PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, &#38; personal care attendants.</description>
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		<title>Home Care Industry Can Afford to Pay Workers Fair Wage, PHI Fact Sheet Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thriving home care industry brought in roughly $84 billion in revenue in 2009, the last year for which data is available, according to a new PHI fact sheet.]]></description>
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		<title>New Resources Dispel Myths and Clarify the Proposed &#8220;Companionship Exemption&#8221; Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the midpoint of the 60-day public comment period on the proposed revision to the "companionship exemption," PHI and NELP have published resources clarifying the proposal.]]></description>
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		<title>GUEST COMMENTARY: Fair Wages Result in Lower Turnover and Better Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Kulp, president and CEO, Home Care Associates, and PHI board member, explains that paying home care workers minimum wage and overtime is fair and smart.]]></description>
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		<title>Care Still Affordable under New Companionship Regs, New PHI Fact Sheet Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact sheet explains that paying home care workers fair wages will not make care unaffordable for consumers and, in fact, could actually lower costs for some employers.]]></description>
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		<title>Comment Period Commences for DOL Proposal to Revise the &#8220;Companionship Exemption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 27, just days after President Obama announced the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed regulation to revise the "companionship exemption," the 60-day public comment period was launched.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI President Steven Dawson Addresses Business Owners&#8217; Concerns About the DOL&#8217;s Proposed Rule on the Companionship Exemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI President Steven Dawson responds to concerns voiced by owners of home care agencies following the DOL's proposal to give federal minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>White House Proposes Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections for Home Care Aides</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama announced on December 15 that he intends to guarantee nearly 2 million home care workers basic minimum wage and overtime protections.]]></description>
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		<title>Statement from PHI President Steven L. Dawson on the DOL&#8217;s Proposed Revisions to the Companionship Exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Narrowing the companionship exemption is a very important first step to preparing America to care," says PHI President Dawson.]]></description>
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		<title>FLSA Companionship Exemption Highlighted in the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post and the Mercury News have published articles explaining the companionship exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act.]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times Calls for Swiftly Revising the “Companionship Exemption”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the fourth time, The New York Times has published an editorial calling for the Department of Labor (DOL) to revise the “companionship exemption.” The companionship exemption excludes about 2.5 million home care workers from the basic federal wage and overtime protections afforded to most workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). “Fair Pay [...]]]></description>
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