Home care wages have been stagnant in New York for over a decade. Where aides could once expect to earn 150 percent of New York’s minimum wage in 2006, today they can count on minimum wage or just above it — less than what many fast food and retail workers now make. And the sector has been bleeding workers as a result.

Gov. Kathy Hochul committed in her first State of the State last week to combat historic staffing shortages across the health care industry by investing $4 billion in wages and bonuses. But home care recipients like Johnston say they were disappointed to learn the aides they rely on every day may not be included in the plan. Read More. 

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