Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back

Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back

This story originally was published by Capital & Main For more than two decades, Denise Lugo has worked as a home care worker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, caring for elderly clients in their homes. Workers like Lugo provide intimate care…

Home care workers in Pa. and other states are losing minimum wage protections — and fighting back

Angela Engram, a home care worker in Pittsburgh, takes her client Linda Stokes out for her daily walk. (Photo by Jeff Ricker for Capital & Main)This story was originally published by Capital & Main.  For more than two decades, Denise Lugo has worked as a home care worker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, caring for elderly clients in their homes. Workers like Lugo provide intimate care for seniors and people with disabilities who cannot care for …