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Title: Direct Care Worker Disparities: Key Trends and Challenges

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: Low wages and poor job quality undermine employment experiences and outcomes for all direct care workers, but how do these experiences and outcomes vary within the workforce? This research brief offers a detailed snapshot of the direct care workforce by gender and race/ethnicity. We show that women of color now comprise more than half of all direct care workers, but women and people of color in this workforce experience heightened economic instability compared to their white and male counterparts. These and other findings from this research underscore the pressing need to implement policy and practice interventions that explicitly address disparities in the direct care workforce.

Url: http://www.phinational.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Direct-Care-Worker-Disparities-2022-PHI.pdf

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Authors: McCall, Stephen; Scales, Kezia

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Health and Health Systems, Race and Ethnicity

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