This Action Alert comes from the New York Association on Independent Living:
Call-In Day for #FairPay4HomeCare this Friday!
The Caring Majority is holding a call-in day tomorrow in support of #FairPay4HomeCare. This bill would increase wages for home care workers and personal assistants (PAs) to 150% of a region’s minimum wage. Paying home care workers and PAs a higher wage will go a long way to addressing the home care crisis in New York State.
Over the past year, we’ve lost approximately 15,000 people in nursing homes due to the pandemic. COVID-19 only highlighted underlying problems in nursing homes like understaffing, poor infection control, and lack of enforcement which have long existed in these institutions. It is essential we make an investment in home care so that people have access to community-based long-term care and avoid institutionalization. The #FairPay4HomeCare bill does exactly that. We need to make sure our legislators know we need them to sign on in support of the legislation.
ACTION
We are asking you to make three calls this Friday, February 12 demanding that this year's budget provide #FairPay4HomeCare.
Register at this link to receive the call-in day details by email, or use this direct link on Friday.