As Their Numbers Grow, Home Care Aides Are Stuck at $10.11

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/health/home-care-aides-wages.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

The national median of the home care workers’, disabled and older adults, wages is $10.21 an hour in 2005, adjusted for inflation. However, a decade later, the home care aides earn even less, which is $10.11 an hour. At $10 an hour, those people can’t afford a place to live. Home care aides are mostly for women and color. The subsidy has been increased from 700,000 to more than 1.4 million over the past decades. The numbers stand for a nation’s fastest-growing occupations. However, because wages have stagnated and most people prefer full-time, these caregivers frequently sink into poverty. Many groups have proposed solutions, such as “States have established registries where consumers can locate caregivers, eliminating rice middlemen.”. Even we have lots of solutions; the nation needs a long-term strategy to deal with the home care.