Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal

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2. And not just caregivers for the elderly. My disabled daughter was onstage at the press conference w/Obama in Dec., 2011

when he proposed those new labor protections. (She employs home care providers, and is also an advocate for domestic workers' rights.)

If you scroll down, you can see my daughter (Sascha, but they left out an 's') sitting in a wheelchair:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/12/15/ensuring-fair-pay-homecare-workers

I am one of her caregivers, and I do work overtime (which is cheaper than getting another caregiver to work those hours, but whatever), so thanks again for the unrelenting commitment to rolling back everything of any value for regular Americans in order to ensure more billions for oligarchs. We already have a dire shortage of caregivers, exacerbated by the 10,000 plus Boomers (like me) leaving the labor force every year... a demographic cohort that is also rapidly developing disabling conditions that require home care support... so we have many more people (a tsunami of them) needing home care and a much smaller workforce to provide it... PLUS immigrant workers (including those who are undocumented) from "shithole" countries disproportionately provide that type of care, so deportations are already exacerbating this crisis. And now he wants to pay these critical workers less, too! Brilliant move!

https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-deportation-plans-threaten-400000-direct-care-jobs-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-could-lose-vital-in-home-support/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration's%20deportation%20agenda,remain%20safely%20in%20their%20homes.