PSARA members are invited to participate with the broader community at the Seattle Care Congress from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, February 11, at the Greenwood Community Senior Center, 525 N. 85th Street in Seattle. Lunch will be provided.
Our country and region are facing a severe and growing “care gap.” The number of persons needing long-term care services is expected to reach 27 million by 2050, while the current direct care workforce is only 3 million. PSARA has joined a national campaign to address this ticking time bomb. No one wants to age in an institution if it is possible to receive the necessary care in one’s own home.
Today individuals and families across the country are struggling to find dependable, affordable quality care that meets the full range of their needs. That goal will not be achieved until the direct care workforce is protected by labor laws that assure them they can achieve a decent living for themselves and their families.
Today, nearly half the direct care workforce earns less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. In addition, there are neither uniform training standards nor a meaningful career ladder to provide opportunities for advancement.
Moreover, many direct care givers are immigrants who lack documentation. Without a pathway to citizenship, these care givers are pushed into the underground economy, where they live in constant fear of deportation.
The Caring Across Generations campaign is based on the principle that all members of our society deserve a dignified quality of life and dignified quality jobs. To achieve that goal, we must:
• Create sufficient jobs to meet the growing demand for direct care.
• Transform the quality of today’s direct care jobs by ensuring fair wages, access to health insurance, and protection of health and safety.
• Create a rewarding career path and linguistically and culturally relevant training programs for undocumented care workers and their families.
• Create training and certification programs that provide a path to legal status and citizenship for undocumented care workers and their families.
• Support individuals and families who hire direct care workers by providing access to Medicaid/Medicare and by creating tax credits to assist with the costs of direct care.
• Support individuals and families who are providing unpaid kin care by establishing Social Security care-giving credits, paid family leave, and childcare subsidies.
This multi-year national campaign recognizes that caring for the aging and for people with disabilities is a national responsibility. Please join us on February 11 as we launch this campaign in the Puget Sound region.
-- Robby Stern
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
Get ready to celebrate August 16!
Come and bring a friend – bring a carload! – to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Social Security with U.S. Senator Patty Murray as our featured speaker!
Toast Social Security with sparkling cider. Enjoy your slice of the birthday cake provided courtesy of the retired teachers of AFT Washington. Bear witness to our determination to defend our nation’s premier social program!
The event will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, August 16, at the Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N. 85th Street in Seattle. Overflow parking and free shuttle service are available at the nearby Greenwood Market, 8500 2nd Avenue N.W., courtesy of the Wallingford Community Senior Center.
Sponsoring the event are the Greenwood Senior Center, the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans, and the 18 organizations affiliated with “Social Security Works – Washington,” the new coalition organized to defend the integrity of Social Security – and to make it better.
The anniversary observance is more than a “feel good” occasion. It will take place at a time of political peril, with members of the President’s Bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform determined to use the federal budget deficit as a pretext to raid the dedicated Social Security Trust Fund.
“We’re shooting for a capacity audience of 300,” said PSARA President Robby Stern. “Please make a special effort to build this anniversary celebration. We’ll invite everyone to sign a mass letter to President Obama and to place cell phone calls to the White House and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Toast Social Security with sparkling cider. Enjoy your slice of the birthday cake provided courtesy of the retired teachers of AFT Washington. Bear witness to our determination to defend our nation’s premier social program!
The event will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, August 16, at the Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N. 85th Street in Seattle. Overflow parking and free shuttle service are available at the nearby Greenwood Market, 8500 2nd Avenue N.W., courtesy of the Wallingford Community Senior Center.
Sponsoring the event are the Greenwood Senior Center, the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans, and the 18 organizations affiliated with “Social Security Works – Washington,” the new coalition organized to defend the integrity of Social Security – and to make it better.
The anniversary observance is more than a “feel good” occasion. It will take place at a time of political peril, with members of the President’s Bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform determined to use the federal budget deficit as a pretext to raid the dedicated Social Security Trust Fund.
“We’re shooting for a capacity audience of 300,” said PSARA President Robby Stern. “Please make a special effort to build this anniversary celebration. We’ll invite everyone to sign a mass letter to President Obama and to place cell phone calls to the White House and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
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