A bold investment in the care economy would help aging Americans and people with disabilities live at home affordably and create hundreds of thousands of good-paying home care jobs, addressing the ...

Proposed investments in the Build Back Better agenda would benefit a significant number of workers, particularly women and women of color; transform the home care and early childhood sectors; and lift ...

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In many ways, health-sector jobs helped the US economy recover from the financial crisis of 2007–08: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), between 2006 and 2016, 2.8 million jobs were ...

I’ve worked in nursing homes for nearly 20 years — 14 of those at my current facility — and what keeps me going are the residents. They become like family to us. And for some, we’re the only people ...

This story is part of a BostonomiX series called “The Future Of Work” that examines the jobs of the future and the skills needed for those jobs. If it's Thursday afternoon, you'll likely find Leroy ...

Dawn Luciano spends her weekends working as a personal care attendant, caring for seniors and people with disabilities in their homes. She’d like to spend her weekdays doing it, too. “Unfortunately, I ...

Fifteen years ago, my mom suffered a brain aneurysm and got into a severe car accident. I quit my secure job as an insurance agent to care for her, in order to make sure she could remain at home with ...