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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>Articles Focus on Home Care Workers&#8217; Wages, Job Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The job quality and wages of home care workers are the focus of recently published articles in LeadingAge Magazine and BrainTrack.]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Group Supports Fair Pay for Home Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/womens-group-supports-fair-pay-for-home-care-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by the Older Women's League expresses support for a proposed revision to the Fair Labor Standards Act that would extend basic wage protections to home care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Discuss Improving Training and Employment for Direct-Care Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative convened an expert discussion on the challenges that direct-care workers face and strategies that workforce development leaders can use to improve their job quality.]]></description>
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		<title>STATE NEWS UPDATES: Missouri, Minnesota, Alabama</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/state-news-updates-missouri-minnesota-alabama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri home care workers were legally cleared to unionize, PCAs in Minnesota have been temporarily spared wage cuts, and Alabama's governor is pushing for more Medicaid funding.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Health Franchises Among Nation&#8217;s Most Profitable, USA Today Reports</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/home-health-franchises-among-nations-most-profitable/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/home-health-franchises-among-nations-most-profitable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report shows that home care is one of the five most profitable franchise ventures in the country, yet home care companies continue to fight a proposed federal rule that would extend basic wage protections to home care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey Home Care Workers Protest Wage Cuts</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/new-jersey-home-care-workers-protest-wage-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home health aides in New Jersey held a rally on April 25 to voice their opposition to wage cuts proposed by their employer.]]></description>
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		<title>OP-ED: Fair Wages Necessary to Build Home Care Workforce</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/op-ed-fair-wages-necessary-to-build-home-care-workforce/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/op-ed-fair-wages-necessary-to-build-home-care-workforce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. cannot build the home care workforce it needs to care for the aging baby-boomer generation unless home care workers are paid fairly, argues an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel on April 27.]]></description>
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		<title>Time Hails PHI Ally as One of the World&#8217;s Most Influential People</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/time-hails-phi-ally-as-one-of-the-worlds-most-influential-people/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/time-hails-phi-ally-as-one-of-the-worlds-most-influential-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.]]></description>
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		<title>REPORT: Majority of Medi-Cal Paid Caregivers at Economic Risk</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/report-majority-of-medi-cal-paid-caregivers-at-economic-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/report-majority-of-medi-cal-paid-caregivers-at-economic-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than half of family caregivers in California who are paid by Medi-Cal to assist low-income elders and people with disabilities have incomes below or near the federal poverty level.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post Publishes Op-Ed Calling for Fair Pay for Home Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/washington-post-publishes-op-ed-calling-for-fair-pay-for-home-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/washington-post-publishes-op-ed-calling-for-fair-pay-for-home-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The op-ed, written by PHI President Steven L. Dawson and economist Dean Baker, argues that the exemption of home care workers from federal wage protections is an "issue that affects the welfare of women."]]></description>
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