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		<title>Real Wages Keep Falling for Personal and Home Care Aides</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/09/real-wages-keep-falling-for-personal-and-home-care-aides/</link>
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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>Nursing Home Staff Share Lessons Learned in Katrina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A crisis doesn’t build character; it reveals character,” says director of nursing Ann Stansberry of the staff of her nursing home in The Big Uneasy: Katrina’s Unsung Heroes. “We’re watching on TV and they’re seeing their entire city flooded to the rooftops, not knowing if their husbands are okay, if their children are okay. But [...]]]></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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