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In These Times, By Michelle Chen, August 17, 2013. For many seniors, growing older means facing new kinds of stress—such as fragile health, a tight budget on a fixed income, or the travails of living alone. And for the people who care for the aging, the stress can be just as severe. When her client is going through a rough time, one domestic worker says she lives through every minute of it, too: “Sometimes we stay there for five days…and we don’t know what’s outside…You cannot leave the job.”

By Gao Mingde August 7, 2013 In New York, one in five adults is involved in caring for the elderly or the disabled.…

By Du Guohui August 7, 2013 August 7, 2013 –With the “baby boom” population aging in New York and other American cities, more and more people are entering into old age, and the more and more and more people are involved in care for the elderly.…

WFUV, By Jeff Coltin, August 6, 2013. New York City has a huge aging population as Baby Boomers grow older. A new report from the Alliance for a Greater New York or ALIGN draws attention to those that will be helping them with that process—home care workers. The report shows the elderly, the disabled and those that need care largely want to remain in their communities and home care workers allow them to do that.

WBAI, By Andrea Sears, WBAI Evening News, April 6, 2013. More than 1 million New York City residents, primarily the elderly and the disabled currently rely on home care services and supports. And over the next years as the Baby Boom Generation hits retirement age, another million could require home care. That will make home care the biggest single driving force for employment in the city.

Laborpress, By Joe Maniscalco, August 7, 2013. New York, NY - With someone turning 65 every eight seconds - and about one million more New Yorkers soon to be in need of some level of in-home care - the time to transform the city’s vital, yet deeply troubled, home care system is now, say the authors of an alarming new report just out this week.

WGRZ, By Jon Campbell, August 7, 2013. ALBANY A new program to extend tax-free benefits to certain businesses caused the state to downgrade its revenue projections by $323 million through March 2017, according to new estimates from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget office.

ALIGN and the NY Care Council released a groundbreaking survey report on New York City’s current and anticipated home care needs. Findings from more than 1,200 surveys, as well as focus groups and interviews, reveal aspects of the home care system that are in greatest need of change.

Think Progress, By Bryce Covert, August 6, 2013. Over 90 percent of domestic workers and 60 percent of home care workers in New York City earn less than $25,000 a year, according to a new report from the Alliance for a Greater New York. Even worse, nearly 40 percent of domestic workers and 30 percent of home care workers earn less than $15,000.

WNYC, By Stephen Nessen, August 06, 2013. The majority of the city's home health care aides are earning poverty or near poverty wages, according to a new report from the health care advocacy coalition Alliance for a Greater New York. The report finds 62 percent of those surveyed earn less than $25,000 a year.