As America ages, and more of us navigate living with disability, lack of investment in our care economy leaves people with disabilities and elders without the ability to live in, or remain in, their homes and stay active in their communities. Far too many persons are pushed into institutions.

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We must provide high-quality care for our nation’s parents, grandparents, and people with disabilities and create good-paying, union jobs for home care workers.

And while care is expensive for those who need services (nursing homes cost far more than home-based care), jobs in the care economy don’t pay a fair wage to the Black, Latina, Asian, and immigrant women who make up 90% of its workforce. Care workers have been excluded from worker protections for decades -- they didn’t even have federal minimum wage protections until six years ago.

In the richest country in the world, we can afford a long term care system that ensures dignity and the right to live in the community, and ensures better pay and economic stability for some of our lowest-paid but essential workers.