Bloomberg Businessweek, February 28, 2012, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek

February 28, 2012, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek (full article)

Growing Home Care Industry May Have to Raise Pay

Fears that raising worker pay will reduce access to home care are overblown, says Rebecca Givan, an assistant professor at Cornell University’s ILR School. “It will raise wages for the very, very lowest paid of these home health care workers,” Givan says. They’re mostly women who are the main earners in their households, she says, and “many of them are relying on public assistance.”