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Title

Struggling to Provide: a portrait of Alameda County Homecare Workers

Authors

Candace Howes, Connecticut CollegeFollow
Howard Greenwich
Laura Reif, University of California - San Francisco
Lea Grundy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2002

Comments

Initially published as a pamphlet by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

© Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California Berkeley

Full text PDF available at: http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/homecare/homecare.pdf

Abstract

Alameda County employs nearly 8,000 homecare workers to help disabled and elderly persons live independently. Over one-third of these workers and their families—about 2,800—earn incomes that are below the official Federal poverty threshold. Many more struggle to meet basic daily needs and have to make difficult choices between caring for themselves and caring for others. Struggling to Provide is based on a recent survey of homecare workers in Alameda County that illustrates the insecure conditions in which many homecare workers live.

Recommended Citation

Howes, Candace; Greenwich, Howard; Reif, Laura; and Grundy, Lea, "Struggling to Provide: a portrait of Alameda County Homecare Workers" (2002). Economics Faculty Publications. 8.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/econfacpub/8