{"id":4758,"date":"2016-10-19T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:19:22","slug":"big-raises-for-many-home-care-workers-wont-necessarily-help-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Big Raises For Many Home Care Workers Won\u2019t Necessarily Help Senior Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jane Gottlieb for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, health aides who care for elderly Americans at home appeared at scores of rallies calling for better pay and workplace conditions. President Barack Obama and some of the presidential candidates have pledged to improve the lives of these workers, who often struggle on the poverty-level wages they are paid. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/big-raises-for-many-home-care-workers-wont-necessarily-help-senior-citizens\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=36092749&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--YWfaAm0Gao44vdT8V2O3KfvXxnsFYhWDtrSZ3pDqG6abh2RfzVZ67XuqNGrDDgcnz8wsFxwVG2hq4V7lA1srkXtEP0A&amp;_hsmi=36092749\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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