John,

When President Biden talks about the “care economy” he’s talking about home and community care for the aging and people with disabilities. But, even as care services are incredibly expensive, they also don’t pay a fair wage to predominantly Black, Latina, Asian, and immigrant women.

We have a chance to put caregiving at the center of our economy—and to lift up millions of people with low incomes who do this essential, compassionate work.

Join CHN and our growing national coalition. Tell Congress: Care is essential—we must invest in home and community care services for the aging and people with disabilities by supporting good pay and working conditions for Black, Latina, Asian, and immigrant women doing care work now! Sign if you agree!

Living through a global pandemic has laid bare how broken our long-term care system is.

Did you know the home care workforce is 90 percent women, more than half women of color, and nearly a third immigrant workers? And did you realize care workers have been excluded from worker protections for decades?!

In fact, home care workers didn’t even have federal minimum wage protection until six years ago!

President Biden's COVID-19 relief legislation was an important first step towards digging out of the economic crisis worsened by the pandemic. For a true, equitable recovery, however, we need deep investments that focus on Black, Latina and Asian women who provide essential caregiving.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform care in this country, and ensure the home and community care workforce is finally paid a fair wage. Sign the petition today!

Here is what we are going to do: We can provide high-quality care for our nation’s parents, grandparents, and people with disabilities by creating good-paying, union jobs for home care workers.

Recovery efforts aimed at bringing us out of this crisis must center Black, Latina, and Asian women by investing in good union home care jobs and a long-term care system we can all access and afford.

With an ally in the White House and lawmakers that share our priorities in Congress, we have an extraordinary chance to create a care economy for the future.

Thank you for all you do to fight for a future that includes all of us, not just the wealthy few.

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs