HomeCare April 1, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Industry advocates are lauding President Joe Biden’s newly-released infrastructure plan, which includes $400 billion dollars for home- and community-based care for seniors and people with disabilities; it would also increase wages for in-home caregivers.
Biden included efforts to improve the lives of homecare workers and those receiving care in the $2 trillion package, along with efforts focused on highways, bridges, transit systems, water supplies, the electrical grid and more.
“These investments will help hundreds of thousands of Americans finally obtain the long-term services and support they need, while creating new jobs and offering caregiving workers a long-overdue raise, stronger benefits, and an opportunity to organize or join a union and collectively bargain,” a White House fact...