"Greatest Healthcare System in the World" has noticeable chunk of it's employees living in poverty
Employment in the healthcare industry is projected to grow, but women – particularly women of color – are being left behind
“One of the biggest challenges is explaining that you are not a maid. That your job is not to clean up after everyone,” said Marisol Rivera, who has been caring for elderly and disabled clients in their New York homes for 20 years.
Rivera is one of the millions of women now employed in the US’s fastest-growing job sector: healthcare. Driven by an ageing population and propped up by government funds, in 2017 healthcare jobs surpassed manufacturing and retail – once the two driving forces of employment in the US. And by all predictions it will keep on growing.
Job growth in the US has broken all records and healthcare has been the leading force in that growth. But wages? Wages are another story. One that shows how women, and particularly women of color, have been left behind even in the hottest job market in US history.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/18/us-healthcare-jobs-wages-women
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