{"id":25517,"date":"2026-01-30T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25517"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:54:15","slug":"caregivers-for-the-elderly-could-lose-wage-protections-under-trump-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25517","title":{"rendered":"Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Andrea Hsu for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caring for the elderly in America is costly \u2014 too costly for many people to afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the Trump administration is attempting to tackle that problem by rolling back wage protections for more than 3 million workers who care for seniors and the disabled in their homes.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/29\/nx-s1-5626767\/home-care-seniors-trump-labor-overtime\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/29\/nx-s1-5626767\/home-care-seniors-trump-labor-overtime\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrea Hsu for NPR) Caring for the elderly in America is costly \u2014 too costly for many people to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,21,5],"tags":[385,238,1724,94],"class_list":["post-25517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiver","category-health-care-finance","category-home-health-services","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-home-health-care","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25518,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions\/25518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}