As demand rises, wages for Wisconsin home care workers stagnate

“These public programs have really choked the wages in a lot of ways,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of UW-Madison think tank COWS who has spent decades studying low-wage work. “It’s a matter of public policy that home health workers are paid so little. We haven’t created good public jobs out of care work.”

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