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Home Health Aides Ignored

The Supreme Court, who ruled that they were exempt from minimum wage and overtime protections, dealt a stunning economic blow to home health aides, an industry dominated by poor black women. —“The court’s ruling is another blow to struggling, low-wage women,” said Nancy Duff Campbell, a co-president of the National Women’s Law Center. “It means that home care workers, who are overwhelmingly low-income women of color, will continue to be unfairly treated despite providing essential

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