What happened with Fair Pay for Home Care?
Reporting out from the 2023 State Legislative Cycle
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Lilith Magazine: She’s My Daughter! She’s Supposed to Do This!
More than one in five Americans are family caregivers, for a total of 53 million people, disproportionately female. “Fa…
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Gotham Gazette: Our Communities Need Fair Pay for Home Care Work; Albany Leaders Must Hear Them
New York City Council Member Crystal Hudson & JFREJ Caring Majority Leader Bobbie Sackman
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ABC Eyewitness News: New York elected leaders call for passage of 'Fair Pay for Home Care' bill
JFREJ members, elected leaders, older adults, disabled people, and home care workers came together in Midtown on Tuesda…
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PHOTOS: New Yorkers Rally Agains Mayor Adams' Cruel and Dangerous Mental Health Plan
Plus: A Letter from NYC Rabbis urging Mayor Adams to Rescind Initiative Directed at Unhoused New Yorkers
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The #FairPay4HomeCare Statewide Tour
The New York Caring Majority coalition is relaunching the Fair Pay for Home Care Campaign with at statewide tour!
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Rabbi Miriam Grossman's Kol Nidre Sermon: Care is a Universal Need
A reflection on grief, rebirth, and care:"All of us were born and needed care. All of us will die and will need some fo…
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Convergence Magazine: NY Home Care Workers Win Big
Years of organizing led by home care workers, older adults, disabled people and family caregivers put home care on the …
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Star Gazette: Home care crisis leaves New Yorkers without aides and families face burnout
“The state pays home care workers poverty wages, and they’re leaving the sector in droves.”
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Times Union: Hourly wages for home care workers to increase by $3
JFREJ Political Director Rachel McCullough tells the Times Union that the Caring Majority coalition is proud of the eff…
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STATEMENT: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) Respond to Gov. Hochul's Budget Deal Betrayal
Governor Hochul’s late budget is a betrayal of New Yorkers across every issue: home care, housing, mass incarceration, …
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WATCH: The Final Push to Fund Fair Pay for Home Care
Watch a compilation of JFREJ and the Caring Majority's work to get #FairPay4HomeCare over the finish line.
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