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NY Care Congress makes history
This weekend we made history. Over 500 care workers, people with disabilities, seniors, union retirees, faith leaders, advocates, elected officials and concerned citizens packed Pace University to share stories and to envision how we'll collectively ensure that millions of seniors and people with disabilities receive the care they need to live with dignity, and that care workers receive the dignity and respect they deserve.
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Newly released Census Bureau statistics, including poverty data, show that the economic recovery has not yet reached a majority of New Yorkers. The severe impact the recession has had on our neighborhoods and boroughs drove poverty, unemployment and income inequality to unacceptably high levels. Those levels did not decrease in 2011.
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What does caring mean to you? I’m Nancy Salazar, and I'd like to tell you what caring means to me. Being a home health aide is hard work – I wake up early, so I can get to work at 8am, and my workday doesn’t end until 8pm. But I don’t mind the hours.