There will be 9.3 million job openings for direct-care workers in the home healthcare sector over the next decade, research says
As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge. At the same time, the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to deport immigrants, who make up about one-third of such care providers.
The White House’s approach has already had an impact on workers in the industry, who perform the intimate day-to-day tasks of caring for elderly and disabled people – including helping people bathe and get dressed and preparing meals for them -in exchange for relatively low wages. Hundreds of thousands of workers from certain Latin American countries, many of whom work as caregivers, are set to lose their work permits in April as a result of changes made by the Trump administration.
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