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Friends Center provides free housing to 10 teachers
Friends Center’s teacher housing initiative covers the full cost of housing for select staff.
WorkforceChild Care
Home-based providers and payment delays
For providers running programs out of their homes, a delay can quickly become a question of whether they can pay staff, buy food or keep the doors open.
WorkforceChild Care
Telluride patients wait to leave hospital for lack of caregivers
Telluride Medical Center says patients who are ready to leave can remain in the hospital when no caregiver is available to support them at home.
WorkforceElder Care
San Bernardino caregivers press for higher wages
Caregivers and union representatives asked San Bernardino supervisors to support higher wages for In-Home Supportive Services providers.
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Pennsylvania’s home-care payment problem leaves shifts unfilled
Workers and providers say low wages and Medicaid reimbursement rates are making it harder to recruit and retain caregivers.
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Siskiyou County approves first In-Home Supportive Services contract
The three-year agreement includes an 85-cent hourly increase to the IHSS wage supplement.
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Kentucky program subsidizes care for childcare workers
The program subsidizes care for workers who work at least 20 hours a week at a center, regardless of household income.
WorkforceChild Care
Some states raise pay for home caregivers as shortage looms
A home care aide works for $15 an hour, paid by a county property tax for senior services.
WorkforceElder Care
New Mexico’s childcare program faces growing pains
About 48,000 children receive free child care, but parents still report trouble finding center spots.
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Childcare benefits for workers
A Durham center and a Watauga County initiative are helping workers pay for their own children’s care as providers seek to retain staff.
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New York family caregivers face a consequential union vote
1199SEIU has filed for an election among workers in a Medicaid program where paid caregivers are often relatives of the people receiving care.
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Parent-paid care can hinge on an extraordinary-care assessment
States are trying to pay parents caring for children with complex needs, but one North Dakota family was denied after its care needs were assessed.
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Grand County sets quarterly stipends for child-care educators
Eligible teachers at nonprofit learning centers will receive $1,000 or $600 quarterly, depending on classroom hours.
PolicyWorkforceChild Care
California Rate Increase Puts Staffing Test Ahead
Aveanna says it will raise wages and recruit ahead of a Jan. 1, 2027 pediatric private-duty nursing rate increase.
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BMC nurses authorize a three-day strike over pay and staffing
The vote puts a contract dispute at New England’s largest safety-net hospital beside the demands of the region’s busiest emergency department.
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Minnesota’s Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board Set Minimum Wages
Minnesota’s wage standards are paid for through nursing home reimbursement rates.
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Vermont Funds a Rural Workforce Pipeline
CMS announced $11.7 million for rural Vermont projects that support tuition, LNA training, and nursing-home capacity, with benefits dependent on future delivery.
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Massachusetts Evidence Links Access to Educator Pay
Eighty-nine percent of surveyed Massachusetts mothers said they would use formal child care if it were free.
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Pennsylvania Begins Proactive Home-Care Wage Reviews
Workers do not need to file a complaint before the initiative investigates.
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Maryland opens FAMLI registration before benefits begin
Maryland employers can now register for FAMLI, while payroll withholding starts in January 2027 and paid leave becomes available in January 2028.
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West Virginia child-care law remains partly unimplemented
West Virginia DoHS has implemented one billing change, while the bulk of an enacted child-care law remains delayed after a July 1 deadline.
PolicyWorkforceChild Care
More adults are balancing children, parents and work
A Pew report cited by the New York Post says more than half of Americans in their 40s are in the sandwich generation, while Care.com survey findings describe career and financial strain.
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California home-care funds pause as nursing-home staffing stays short
The Trump administration has paused $1.7 billion for California’s In-Home Supportive Services while new federal staffing data show broad nursing-home shortfalls.
PolicyWorkforceDisabilityElder Care
LTCCC finds 88% of nursing homes below expected staffing
LTCCC’s analysis of Q1 2026 federal staffing data found that nursing homes averaged 24.6% less nurse staffing than expected for resident needs.
WorkforceElder Care
Home care pay gains face Medicaid funding pressure
Some states have raised pay for home caregivers, but the source reports that Medicaid cuts taking effect in 2027 could erase those gains.
PolicyWorkforceElder Care
Minnesota nursing-home wage floors move toward September
A federal judge dismissed a challenge to Minnesota's workforce standards board as scheduled wage increases approach.
WorkforceElder Care
A Medicare Bill Links Home-Care Coverage and Worker Pay
The Medicare At Home Act would define a Part B home-care benefit and a proposed wage floor for home care workers.
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Minnesota's Nursing-Home Wage Floor Is Set for September
Minnesota's Department of Human Services was months late in filing the necessary paperwork with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Pennsylvania budget omits home health nurse funding increase
Low Medicaid reimbursement is one barrier to finding skilled home care, Pennsylvania's home-care industry says.
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RN staffing mix tracks acute-care use in nursing homes
A national panel study found lower hospitalization and outpatient emergency-department visit rates where RN share was higher, holding total nursing hours constant.
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Maine prepares a waiver for the adult-services handoff
The proposed Lifespan waiver would begin at age 14 and keep people on one waiver through life changes.
PolicyWorkforceDisability
Massachusetts Wage Proposal Links Worker Pay to Child-Care Access
Jeff Liebman estimates a $6 per hour wage increase would raise formal child-care enrollment from 53 percent to 65 percent in five years; the state would cover the cost.
ResearchWorkforcePolicyChild Care
Seven Caregiver Layoffs as Massachusetts Sets Home-Care Rules
A federal immigration policy shift left seven Haitian caregivers ineligible to work at a New York nursing home as Massachusetts enacted a home-care licensure framework.
PolicyWorkforceElder Care
Child care pay gap widens despite policy changes
Brookings reports the earnings gap between child care workers and women overall widened from roughly $20,000 to $28,000 a year, adjusted for inflation.
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Pennsylvania Raises Child Care Bonuses; Medicaid Covers Over 26 Percent
Pennsylvania's larger recruitment and retention payments arrive as updated Georgetown data show Medicaid covered over 26 percent of child care workers in 2024.
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Medicaid Coverage Still Supports Child Care Workers
A Georgetown update says Medicaid covered over 26 percent of child care workers in 2024 and identifies insurance gaps.
PolicyWorkforceChild Care
California settlement targets staffing at 17 skilled nursing facilities
Sweetwater is a licensed skilled nursing facility chain that violated state staffing requirement laws.
PolicyWorkforceElder Care
Massachusetts shows the enforcement gap in care rules
Massachusetts staffing floors, Britain's pay agreement and South Korea's insurance plan put the U.S. focus on whether formal rules reach workers, residents and families.
PolicyWorkforceElder Care
Britain dates a social-care pay agreement for April 2028
The Fair Pay Agreement for social care staff will come into effect in April 2028.
PolicyWorkforceElder Care
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