PUBLISHED 8:43 PM ET Jul. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:43 PM EDT Jul. 27, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic placed tremendous stress on the health care workforce. On Monday, the Senate held a hearing examining some of the challenges facing particularly nursing home and assisted living facility workers.
Nursing home and assisted living facility workers are being paid right now at or near the minimum wage, which for Upstate New York is $12.50 and for New York City is $15 an hour.
At the same time, across the state, fast food workers are making a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Dora Fisher from the Health Care Association of New York State explains that many of these health care workers just simply can’t afford to stay in this line of work.
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AARP finds nearly 80% of New York’s 2.5 million unpaid family caregivers pay a significant amount of their own money to help care for their loved one. The group is pushing for federal and state tax credits to help ease that growing burden.
AARP surveyed caregivers in the spring of 2021 and found that unpaid family caregivers spend an average of $7,242 of their own money to care for an elderly or disabled relative.
The group’s New York Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy, David McNally, says the money goes to a wide range of needs.
“Over 50% of the money was being spent on housing,” said McNally, who said that includes paying for mortgage rent, or home modifications.
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