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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>Efforts Continue to Unionize Connecticut Personal Care Attendants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A five-member working group met in Connecticut on Jan. 10 to determine whether personal care attendants employed through the state's Medicaid waiver program should be given the opportunity to join a union.]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut Opens Door to Unionization of Personal Care Aides</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal care attendants employed through Connecticut's Medicaid waiver program now have the option of joining a union, following an executive order issued by Gov. Dannel Malloy.]]></description>
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		<title>CLASS Act at Risk of Repeal, Would Eliminate PCA Workforce Panel</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/class-act-repeal-would-jeopardize-access-to-ltss-eliminate-pca-workforce-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of bipartisan senators known as the "Gang of Six" have advanced a budget proposal that would repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.]]></description>
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		<title>Families USA Conference Focuses on Home Care Workforce</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/families-usa-conference-focuses-on-home-care-workforce/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/families-usa-conference-focuses-on-home-care-workforce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer advocates' interest in long-term services and supports is growing, as evidenced by several workshops at Health Action 2011, Families USA's annual consumer action conference.]]></description>
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		<title>Real Wages Declining for Personal and Home Care Aides</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/real-wages-declining-for-personal-and-home-care-aides/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/real-wages-declining-for-personal-and-home-care-aides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI PolicyWorks has released an updated State Chart Book on Wages for Personal and Home Care Aides (pdf). The chart book tracks wages in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the period 1999-2008. It shows that nationally, the median real wage (adjusted for inflation) for personal and home care aides has decreased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: PHI to Manage Vermont Career Ladder Program for PCAs</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/press-release-phi-to-manage-vermont-career-ladder-program/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/press-release-phi-to-manage-vermont-career-ladder-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE For immediate release July 6, 2009 Contact: Alex Olins PHI Northern New England Director Phone: (802) 655-4615 Email: aolins@PHInational.org Rewarding Skill and Improving Care New initiative provides career advancement opportunities for direct-care workers in Vermont Burlington, VT &#8212; Few issues are more important to people today than health care. Both from a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA Trainers Introduced to PHI&#8217;s Personal Care Services Curriculum</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/pa-trainers-introduced-to-phis-personal-care-services-curriculum/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/pa-trainers-introduced-to-phis-personal-care-services-curriculum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 21:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jill Tabbutt-Henry, PHI Curriculum Manager “I thought it was great!” “Wonderful sessions, flowed well. I felt very supported in my learning&#8230;” “Appreciated the plain-speaking, direct approach.” These enthusiastic comments come from a group of staff educators and administrators from home care agencies, disabilities support organizations, and a community college in western Pennsylvania who recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Issues Detailed Blueprint for Establishing DCW Credentialing System</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations for Establishing a Credentialing System for Iowa&#8217;s Direct Care Workforce, (pdf) a recent publication from the Iowa Direct Care Worker Task Force, is a useful tool for advocates in any state who want to create &#8220;an accessible, comprehensible, flexible, quality system of education and training for all direct care workers.&#8221; The report documents work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Calls for Changes in Federal DCW Job Classifications</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-calls-for-changes-in-federal-dcw-job-classifications/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-calls-for-changes-in-federal-dcw-job-classifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a recent solicitation for comments from the federal government, PHI recommended changes to the three main categories used to track direct-care workers at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The government considers revisions to its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) categories every ten years. PHI also asked the government to address the exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care for Health Care Workers Newsletter Seeks Suscribers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/health-care-for-health-care-workers-campaign-launches-newsletter/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/health-care-for-health-care-workers-campaign-launches-newsletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the HCHCW newsletter We&#8217;ve been covering news from our Health Care for Health Care Workers (HCHCW) campaign in PHI&#8217;s news stories and Quality Care/Quality Jobs newsletter ever since the campaign started years ago &#8212; and we&#8217;ll keep on covering the really big stories, since PHI&#8217;s beat is whatever affects the direct-care workforce. But now HCHCW has launched [...]]]></description>
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