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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>PHI Online Tax Resource Center Helps Employers Help Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the third consecutive year, PHI is hosting the Earn, Keep, Save MORE website to help direct-care workers access free tax preparation assistance services and get the tax credits that they are entitled to receive.]]></description>
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		<title>Video Explains Health Reform&#8217;s Impact on Michigan</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/video-explains-health-reforms-impact-on-michigan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit Public Television and Michigan Consumers for Healthcare have released a video on the Affordable Care Act.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Workshop Provided Tools to Improve Person-Directed Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI Midwest Director Hollis Turnham conducted a workshop about how to improve the odds for the successful use of person-directed services at the 36th Consumer Voice Annual Conference &#038; Meeting.]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Consumer Coalition Urges Improvements to State Exchange Legislation</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/michigan-consumer-coalition-urges-improvements-to-state-exchange-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Consumers for Healthcare held a press conference on October 11 to announce its support for a Senate bill to establish a state health insurance exchange and to offer recommendations on how to improve the legislation.]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Endorses Michigan Training on Abuse Prevention</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/cms-endorses-phi-training-on-adult-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The adult learner-centered training program, which was designed for direct-care workers, was co-developed by PHI.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Launches Michigan-Focused Website Expansion</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-launches-michigan-focused-website-expansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI Michigan provides comprehensive coverage of Michigan's direct-care workforce and highlights PHI's efforts to promote quality care through quality jobs throughout the state.]]></description>
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		<title>Online Tax Resource Center Helps Employers Help Direct-Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/online-tax-resource-center-helps-employers-help-direct-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/online-tax-resource-center-helps-employers-help-direct-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Direct-care workers and their employers can still take advantage of PHI's online tax resource center designed to help workers get the tax credits they are entitled to receive and access free tax preparation assistance sites.]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Lawmakers Aim to Abolish State’s EITC Program</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/michigan-lawmakers-aim-to-abolish-states-eitc-program/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/michigan-lawmakers-aim-to-abolish-states-eitc-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Michigan legislators are proposing to help fill the state’s $1.8 billion budget gap by eliminating the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit program, which provides refundable tax credits to low- and moderate-income working families and individuals, including direct-care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Uses CMS Funds to Assess Long-Term Care Workforce</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/michigan-uses-cms-funds-to-assess-long-term-care-workforce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Department of Community Health is conducting a federally funded evaluation of its long-term care workforce in an effort to capture critical data about it, and to determine whether the needs of the state's direct-care workers are being met.]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Embarks on Personal Care Aide Training</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/michigan-embarks-on-personal-care-aide-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Office of Services to the Aging, Michigan State University-College of Human Medicine, and PHI have partnered to address the training needs of personal care aides who serve clients in MI Choice, the state's Medicaid home and community-based waiver program.]]></description>
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