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		<title>Book Award Unearths Retired CNA&#8217;s Past as Civil Rights Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Book Award awarded last month for a young adult book has given its subject, a retired nursing assistant, a taste of long-overdue fame for a brave act in her youth. Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat to a white woman in Montgomery months before Rosa Parks walked into history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Wages Keep Falling for Personal and Home Care Aides</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every direct care worker advocate knows, personal and home care aides earn far too little for the important work they do. And now an updated version of PHI’s State Chart Book on Wages for Personal and Home Care Aides (PDF) gives advocates a valuable tool, proving that real wages are actually getting worse. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCA Publishes Fact Sheets for Direct Care Worker Advocates and their Allies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A full set of DCA Direct Care Fact Sheets, one for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is now available in the Resources section of our website. The one-page sheets were created as a resource for direct care worker advocates and their allies, legislators, policymakers, members of the media, and others [...]]]></description>
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