Some opponents of the rule claim that paying these hard-working home care workers will lead to higher rates of institutional care.
We are here to discuss a final rule issued by the Department of Labor to ensure that our nation's 2 million professional...
Louis Brandeis once observed in our federal system. States can act as laboratories for democracy.
last spring the house Republican budget proposed to block-grant Medicaid and cut it by one-third.
It is clear that people performing these often backbreaking tasks, day in and day out, deserve a fair week's wages.
Last year I urged the administration to offer a clear and compelling reason why this regulation was necessary, especiall...
I am not arguing for preserving the status quo... we have got a problem in terms of one discrete part of the workforce.
Where does that leave us in terms of trying to address these shortages?
I think it is important to understand the kind of professions I am talking about are not public sector jobs.
Frankly, we, in my opinion, can't just sort of accept the status quo in this area.
I am concerned that lowest price technically acceptable contracting has become an over-utilized practice in the acquisit...