Education & Workforce Committee Democrats

DHS's final public charge rule puts immigrant direct care workers at risk, threatening care for older adults and people with disabilities. Read PHI's statement.

Haitian immigrants make up a large portion of the already overburdened home-care workforce.

Federal policy changes are stripping away basic workplace protections for the nation’s 5.4 million direct care workers, and it’s imperative that Congress and the states act to reverse the damage, acco...

Trump’s decision to revoke Temporary Protective Status for immigrants will damage long-term care in the US. One facility had to fire 19 Haitian staffers.

To make sure that long-term services and supports remain available as the older population grows, it is essential that states partner with policy makers at the federal and local levels, along with lea...

Legislation that would make home- and community-based services a mandatory Medicaid benefit has been reintroduced in the Senate, with potential benefits for assisted living providers and the older adu...

The Trump administration move leaves home-care agencies, restaurants and other employers racing to fill vacancies.

Diane Swonk says July’s bizarre jobs report is the first data from the deportation economy: shrinking payrolls and a shrinking workforce.

DHS's final public charge rule puts immigrant direct care workers at risk, threatening care for older adults and people with disabilities. Read PHI's statement.

Vasquez described the careworker visa bill as both an economic development initiative and an immigration reform measure.

Leaked plans to declare migrants dead and a SCOTUS ruling are hollowing out elder care

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed the most significant revision to the rules governing federal grants in more than a decade. The proposed rule would change how nearly...

This Juneteenth marks 161 years since the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. The day has alway...

Wyden, Senate Democrats Unveil Plans to Improve Long-Term Care Amid Republican Attacks

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has deferred $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement payments to California, while issuing a six-month national moratorium on new Medicare enrollments for h...

A transformative vision for the direct care workforce.

A critical challenge facing home care in the United States dates back to 1938, when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The law granted minimum wage and overtime protections to most American...

The budget reconciliation act of 2025 (HR 1) mandated that all states which have expanded Medicaid impose community engagement requirements—more commonly known as work requirements—as a condition of M...

More than 107,000 direct care workers in Wisconsin provide essential assistance to older adults and people with disabilities in home- and communitybased services (HCBS), residential care communities, ...

Today in Congress, Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) reintroduced two landmark bills to systematically address the direct care workforce crisis: the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act and the Hom...