Hillary Clinton meets with home healthcare workers in L.A.
Hillary Clinton brought her presidential campaign to Los Angeles on Thursday, telling home healthcare workers that she wants to improve their working conditions, training and wages so more people can remain at home as they age.
Clinton met with eight women, all of whom had either worked in home healthcare or hired someone for care-giving, for a round table discussion at Los Angeles Trade Technical College....
Many of the women at the round table described working for low wages, with no or very little sick time, no training and no benefits. Clinton said she thinks the workers aren't being valued enough.
"I'm hoping that this issue of care-giving will rise higher on the national agenda," Clinton said....
Many of the workers told Clinton they make about $8 an hour. "It's just so wrong," Clinton said. "There's no other way to say it. It's just so wrong." She said that raising the minimum wage is a central part of her campaign's economic agenda....
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-clinton-home-care-20150806-story.html via Los Angeles Times
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