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President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan contains one particular provision that looks much different from physical infrastructure: $400 billion to make long-term care cheaper and raise care workers’ wages.
For health care policy experts, the need is obvious. Care work is a tough job. It’s also an essential service, and one of the fastest-growing occupations in a country with a rapidly aging population. About 95 million Americans will be 65 and older by the year 2060 (nearly double the number in 2018), ballooning the need for affordable in-home care. But in order to entice more people to do care work, many lawmakers and experts agree that these need to become better jobs.
Updated: 7:40 AM EDT May 17, 2021 Holly Yan, CNN Video above: The Fred Korematsu Story: The man who defied internment camps for Japanese AmericansImagine getting through this pandemic without Zoom. Or not having any days off work, toiling seven days a week with no overtime pay.Asian Americans have improved the lives of fellow Americans in countless ways. But some of the biggest contributions don t end up in history books.Here s how five Asian Americans of different ethnicities helped shape America:Larry Itliong bolstered farm workers rights and working conditionsAfter losing three fingers working at an Alaska cannery, Larry Itliong spent decades fighting for better pay and treatment for agricultural workers.His work as a pioneering union leader helped generations of farm workers to come. Yet many Americans don t know his name. Itliong became the great Filipino American historical omission, reads a blog post for the Asian American Legal Defense Education Fund. Whi