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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>REPORT: Washington State Faces Home Care Worker Shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington State will need an additional 440,000 home care workers between now and 2030 to meet the rising demand for home care, the report finds.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Says Washington State Owes Caregivers $100 Million</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/judge-says-washington-state-owes-caregivers-100-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A superior court judge ruled on Dec. 2 that Washington State owes in-home caregivers nearly $100 million in back pay and interest.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Ballot Measure Passes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 8, voters in Washington State overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative that strengthens training requirements for most newly hired long-term care workers there.]]></description>
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		<title>Wash. State Ballot Measure Would Mandate Training, Background Checks</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/wash-state-ballot-measure-would-mandate-training-background-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/wash-state-ballot-measure-would-mandate-training-background-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The measure requires home care aides to complete 75 hours of training in order to become certified, and further mandates that all long-term care workers undergo criminal background checks.]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Passes Paid Sick Leave</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/seattle-passes-paid-sick-leave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Seattle City Council passed a bill on September 12 mandating that businesses with five or more employees provide their workers with at least five paid sick leave days per year.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Home Care Workers Arrested at Budget Demonstration</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/washington-home-care-workers-arrested-at-budget-demonstration/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/washington-home-care-workers-arrested-at-budget-demonstration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home care workers were among the more than a dozen people arrested at the Washington state capitol on April 7 while protesting the proposed 16 percent state budget cut to home care services.]]></description>
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		<title>Jury Awards Home Care Aides Back Pay</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/jury-awards-home-care-aides-back-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/jury-awards-home-care-aides-back-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 22,000 home health care workers in Washington State will be awarded $57 million in back pay, the result of a Thurston County jury decision delivered on December 20.]]></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>INTERVIEW: Rep. Moore Says Include Women in Recovery Package</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/congresswoman-strives-to-include-women-in-recovery-package/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/congresswoman-strives-to-include-women-in-recovery-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with many economists and advocacy organizations, Rep.  Gwen Moore (D-WI) wants to see women&#8217;s poverty placed at the very top of the nation&#8217;s agenda. And she has exerted her political power as a U.S. representative to pursue this goal by advocating for the inclusion of women in President Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus package. Moore&#8217;s passion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Chooses Daschle, Lambrew to Lead Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/obama-names-directors-of-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/obama-names-directors-of-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a press conference Thursday on the adminstration&#8217;s plans to address health care reform, President-Elect Barack Obama officially announced Tom Daschle as his choice for both Secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the new White House Office of Health Reform. He also named Dr. Jeanne Lambrew, who worked on health policy at [...]]]></description>
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