Hi, John.

Care workers, most of whom are women of color, do crucial life-saving work every day and it is beyond time they get the support they need and deserve. And it is up to us to ensure elected leaders step up and pass legislation that builds a lasting and transformative care infrastructure. Join us in calling on Congress to make care jobs good jobs that are well paid, with benefits and training, with a pathway to citizenship for immigrant caregivers, and the ability to join a union. We need 50,000 NDWA supporters to add their name to a petition we’ll deliver to Congress on March 25 as part of our National Day of Action. Add your name today.

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The Care is Essential campaign calls for $450 billion to invest in Medicaid to create 1.5 million new care jobs, to increase critical home care services to people with disabilities and aging adults so they can live with dignity at home, and to build a durable home care system for workers and consumers. Greater investment in the professional development of underpaid and underemployed care workers will lead to job gains for everyone and provide the highest standards of care. This critical investment would finally acknowledge the central role women — especially Black, Latina and Asian women, a number of whom are undocumented — play in powering our economy in times of stability and crisis.

President Biden recently signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law. The Plan will deliver an unprecedented amount of aid to workers facing economic instability in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and will uphold the Biden administration’s goal to take action to ensure everyone, regardless of their immigration status, can access the vaccine free-of-charge.

These are important first steps, but an inclusive and equitable national recovery plan must ALSO include safety and security for the millions of immigrant frontline workers who are performing essential jobs to keep our country running. We will continue to urge Congress to include our Care is Essential campaign in recovery plans, and to demand full inclusion of all immigrants in relief and recovery, including a pathway to citizenship for essential domestic workers, so that no one is left out or left behind.

Sign the petition today and join us as we call for these critical investments and urge Congress to support bringing more jobs to our economy by ensuring a pathway to citizenship for domestic workers and other essential workers and their families.

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We must center the women of color whose essential duties make all other work possible. It is the only way to create a just job recovery plan. Take action TODAY by signing the petition — it takes less than two minutes, but will go a long way in helping set the priority on how we transform our economy to work for everyone.

Thanks for all that you do.

Celeste Faison, Campaign Director
National Domestic Workers Alliance