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This week we are featuring our special report on the importance of
fixing family care in America. Keep scrolling for Today's On Tap!

Why Americans Need Paid Sick Leave

More than 100 million of our compatriots don't have it-which poses
all kinds of risks to the rest of us. BY SARAH JAFFE

The Aging of Migrant Domestic Workers

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Too poor to retire, elderly care workers often find themselves caring
for elderly patients. BY RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS

The Corporatization of Nursing Homes
A
tragic history of how we've treated elderly citizens, for profit BY
MAUREEN TKACIK

The Collapse of Long-Term Care Insurance
Attempts
to have the private market manage support and services for the elderly
or people with disabilities have utterly failed. BY ALEXANDER SAMMON

Caregiving in the U.K.

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care system feels the strain.
BY BRITTANY GIBSON

The Neglect of Disability Care

Home care workers and unpaid caregivers who support disabled people are
often left out of public-policy initiatives. BY SARA LUTERMAN

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**OCTOBER 20, 2020**

Meyerson on TAP

A Note to New Yorkers

In recent years, the left has been surging in the Empire State, and the
state's anti-left Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, is doing his
damnedest to put an end to that. Part of that surge is due to the
Working Families Party, a progressive organization that has provided
crucial campaign infrastructure-precinct walkers, phone banks,
mailings, social media-to such progressive Democrats (which it
cross-endorses on its own ballot lines, since New York law has long
permitted that) as soon-to-be Congressmen Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire
Jones, and the half-dozen liberal state senators who two years ago
ousted nominally Democratic incumbents who caucused with the
Republicans, thereby giving the GOP control of the state senate.

Resentful of this push to the left, Cuomo's commissioners changed the
rules for third parties this year. Previously, to retain its ballot
line, those parties needed to get at least 50,000 votes in at minimum
one statewide contest. This year, that threshold has been raised to
130,000 or 2 percent of the statewide vote, whichever is higher.

Which is to say that if New York liberals and socialists want to keep a
crucial partner in the drive to create a more progressive state in the
game, they need to vote Biden/Harris on the Working Families Party's
ballot line. Under New York law, those votes will be added to the
ticket's vote on the Democratic line, so such votes won't be
spoilers, as was the Green Party Florida vote for Ralph Nader in 2000.
For New Yorkers who want a more equitable and humane state, voting WFP
is a necessity this year.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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