They swap out bed pans, tend to wounds, and assist with every facet of day-to-day life — sometimes even living with their patients. They’re home health care aides, and they are a crucial resource in caring for America’s sick, elderly, and disabled — and they [...]

That's right, people can get away with paying grandma's aide less than $7.25 an hour. Why? Congress decided in 1974 to lump home health aides in with casual babysitters under labor laws. President Obama has been trying to change this recently, but the industry is [...]

Maryland lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make it mandatory for the state’s employers to offer paid sick leave to their workers. The bill, if passed, would make Maryland the second state in the country to implement such a policy. Advocates of the Maryland Paid [...]

That's right, people can get away with paying grandma's aide less than $7.25 an hour. Why? Congress decided in 1974 to lump home health aides in with casual babysitters under labor laws. President Obama has been trying to change this recently, but the industry is [...]

The gender wage gap is going in the wrong direction. Women working full-time earned just 80.9 percent of what men earned per week in 2012, slightly below the 82.2 percent they earned in 2011, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research . That doesn't [...]