DCA Publishes Fact Sheets for Direct Care Worker Advocates and their Allies
A full set of DCA Direct Care Fact Sheets, one for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is now available in the Resources section of our website. The one-page sheets were created as a...
View ArticleReal Wages Keep Falling for Personal and Home Care Aides
As every direct care worker advocate knows, personal and home care aides earn far too little for the important work they do. And now an updated version of PHI’s State Chart Book on Wages for Personal...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers Help Lead Movement for Paid Sick Days
Hundreds of thousands of direct care workers face an impossible choice when they get sick. Should they stay home to heal but lose wages and risk losing their jobs, or work sick and risk infecting the...
View ArticlePaid Sick Days Movement Wins Major Victory in New York City
The movement to win paid sick leave for the nation’s workers won a major victory in New York City last week, when an agreement was reached on a bill that would require all employers in the city with at...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
The Massachusetts Senate is deciding whether to give home care workers a much-needed raise. Watch this excellent program from NJTV’s Due Process about why home care workers and other low-wage workers...
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