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	<description>What direct care worker advocates are thinking, saying and doing</description>
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		<title>DCA Members, Allies Comment on Proposed Rule</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/02/dca-members-allies-comment-on-proposed-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#8217;re about two-thirds of the way through the public comment period on the proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protections to home care workers, the comments are beginning to give a sense of the range and sheer number of home care stakeholders who support the rule&#8211;and the depth of their passion about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Invisible Visible</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/02/making-the-invisible-visible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonila Vega</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, my colleague Roy Gedat and I decided to start what is now this blog our e-newsletter, The Direct Care News. We saw a large void, in that there was no news being published by workers themselves about their work and barriers. We wanted the silenced voices of direct care workers to come through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Caring for Friends Taught Me About Direct Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/what-caring-for-friends-taught-me-about-direct-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/what-caring-for-friends-taught-me-about-direct-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meriam Jawhar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Direct care consumers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an advocate for people with disabilities, I’ve always realized that they need certain supports. But becoming a caregiver for two of my friends gave me a whole new awareness of just how much professional caregivers really do, and the huge responsibility they have for another person’s life. The first time I was put into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Honest Day’s Work Deserves Fair Pay</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/an-honest-day%e2%80%99s-work-deserves-fair-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/an-honest-day%e2%80%99s-work-deserves-fair-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohan Varghese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A home care workers explains why we need to enact the proposed home care rule It is only just to give home health care workers the basic rights that are guaranteed by the Fair Labor Standards Act.  If you look at any other job that’s non-salaried, they have those rights. If you work at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We Know About Each Other</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/what-we-know-about-each-other/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/what-we-know-about-each-other/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby won’t go in the auditorium for the noonday concert so Ellie takes Donnie and Melinda while Toby and I wait in the hallway. When you’re ready, I tell him, as calmly as I can because I really want to hear the Schubert concerto. Toby sits cross-legged on the floor, rocking contentedly and we hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Care Workers Talk About the Proposed Rule</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/home-care-workers-talk-about-the-proposed-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/home-care-workers-talk-about-the-proposed-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We asked some of our home care worker members and allies how they felt about the proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protections to home care workers. Here’s what they said: Carolyn Gay, CNA and home care worker I have been a CNA since 1992, working in private duty with some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Dr. King’s Legacy</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/celebrating-dr-king%e2%80%99s-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/celebrating-dr-king%e2%80%99s-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Martin Luther King. Jr. Day approached, we here at the Direct Care Alliance found ourselves reflecting on Dr. King&#8217;s influence on our lives and work and wondering what he would think about today&#8217;s campaign for better jobs for direct care workers. We asked some of our current and past board members to share their thoughts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment Update: Early Feedback on DOL&#8217;s Proposed Home Care Rule</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/comment-update-early-feedback-on-dols-proposed-home-care-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/comment-update-early-feedback-on-dols-proposed-home-care-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.directcarealliance.org/?p=4620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The comments on the Department of Labor’s proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protection to home care workers are surging in faster than DOL staff can post them. Negative feedback seems to be in the majority at the moment, but there are plenty of eloquent comments from supporters of the proposed rule. We’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New DCA Resources Make It Easy to Comment on Proposed Rule</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/new-dca-resources-make-it-easy-to-comment-on-proposed-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/new-dca-resources-make-it-easy-to-comment-on-proposed-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By proposing to grant home care workers basic labor rights, the Department of Labor (DOL) has taken an important step to correct the longstanding injustice done to these crucial workers. Now it&#8217;s up to us to make sure that happens, by registering our support for DOL&#8217;s proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Direct Care Workers Must Be Treated as Professionals</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/why-direct-care-workers-must-be-treated-as-professionals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/why-direct-care-workers-must-be-treated-as-professionals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ameia Yen-Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a long-term care nurse for over 25 years, most recently as a gerontological nurse practitioner. I started out as a nursing assistant, but it wasn’t until I went to graduate school in 2006 that I realized how many people, including us long-term care nurses, fail to give direct care workers the respect and [...]]]></description>
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