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		<title>ASA Journal Devotes Latest Issue to Eldercare Workforce</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/asa-journal-devotes-latest-issue-to-eldercare-workforce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new issue of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging, is devoted entirely to the eldercare workforce, including articles by PHI that highlight the direct-care workforce.]]></description>
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		<title>COMMENTARY: America Must Prepare to Care by Investing in Direct-Care Workforce</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/commentary-america-must-prepare-to-care-by-investing-in-direct-care-workforce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI National Policy Director Steve Edelstein responds to a recent column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Testifies in Support of Older Americans Act Reauthorization</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-testifies-in-support-of-older-americans-act-reauthorization/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-testifies-in-support-of-older-americans-act-reauthorization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison Lee, PHI&#8217;s federal policy and campaign manager, testified at the February 25 listening session on the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act. She noted that the reauthorization is an opportunity to strengthen workforce policy in order to ensure a robust, well-trained workforce to support older Americans in the coming decades. The final listening session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brookings Institution Holds Long-Term Care Forum</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/brookings-institution-holds-long-term-care-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/brookings-institution-holds-long-term-care-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly two dozen eldercare experts convened in Washington, DC, on January 28 for a long-term care forum held at the Brookings Institution, a public-policy think tank. The day-long event, entitled &#8220;Health Care Reform and Older Americans: Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs,&#8221; comprised four separate panel discussions: Perspectives on Health Care Reform and Older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Calls for Fair Pay for Caregivers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/new-york-times-calls-for-fair-pay-for-caregivers/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/new-york-times-calls-for-fair-pay-for-caregivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hthier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A July 9 New York Times editorial calls for home care aides to receive minimum wage and overtime protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act. As the Times notes, in 2007, the Supreme Court upheld a 1975 labor regulation that defined home care aides as “companions,” but that regulation can be reversed anytime by Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Highlights Need for HCBS Policy Reform</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/new-report-supports-iom-workforce-recommendations/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/new-report-supports-iom-workforce-recommendations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Personal Assistance Services (PASC) has issued a report titled Home and Community-Based Services: Public Policies to Improve Access, Cost, and Quality that offers suggestions for improving policy at both the state and federal levels. The report identifies numerous problems in the current Medicaid HCBS structure, including inequities in access to services, inadequate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Floor Discussion Leads to LTC Promises</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/senate-floor-discussion-leads-to-promise-of-ltc-in-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/senate-floor-discussion-leads-to-promise-of-ltc-in-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For eldercare stakeholders, one of the most meaningful outcomes of the Senate debate on the federal recovery package may have been a floor discussion concerning the direct-care workforce. In offering an amendment to the bill, a more robust version of Retooling the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America Act, Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), Chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House, Senate Hash Out Details of Recovery Plan</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/house-and-senate-hash-out-details-of-economic-recovery-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/house-and-senate-hash-out-details-of-economic-recovery-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the U.S. House and Senate reached a compromise on the economic recovery package, bringing the total cost to $789 billion. Complete details were unavailable as of press time. According to various news reports, even though the deal had been struck, lawmakers still had not seen a final summary of the bill, which emerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Forward From Daschle&#8217;s Departure</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/daschle-withdraws-name-for-obamas-health-secretary/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/daschle-withdraws-name-for-obamas-health-secretary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent momentum toward health care reform and attention to the needs of the nation&#8217;s caregiving needs may be temporarily derailed by the departure of Secretary of Health nominee Tom Daschle. The Associated Press in a story titled &#8220;Loss of Daschle Clouds Health Reform Prospects&#8221; says, &#8220;Tom Daschle&#8217;s decision to withdraw his nomination as health and human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times Editorial: Quality Jobs Needed in Home Care</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/nytimes-editorial-quality-jobs-needed-in-home-care/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/nytimes-editorial-quality-jobs-needed-in-home-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New York Times editorial titled &#8220;Caring for the Caregivers&#8221; makes the link between quality care and quality direct-care jobs &#8212; calling for improved labor protections in an area that is &#8220;one of the fastest growing&#8221; but &#8220;one of the lowest paid and most exploitable.&#8221; The piece calls home health care &#8220;a 21st-century growth industry,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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