Bob Casey

I have legislation entitled the, 'Speak Up To Protect Every Abused Kid Act', and it's really to focus on this problem...

So guidance rather than unfunded mandates.

Is there anything the panel would want to offer in terms of steps you hope would result from this hearing, especially, obviously, Federal legislation or action?

Raise the minimum wage, I mentioned before.

Maybe you could just move that microphone so----

The market value of 'free' services provided by family members is $350 billion annually.

Twelve-point-nine million have provided care to both adult and child recipients.

I know there was the Pew study that we have looked at.

It does have the obvious benefit of relieving some of the stress.

I guess if it is working well, it has a lot of positive features.

I guess in those circumstances, part of the tragic irony is that even when there is an adverse impact on the child...

If you have a particularly stressful, burdensome situation where the individual in her, say, her 40's or 50's, is caring for an older parent...

Making the ends meet becomes an almost 24-hour challenge.

One of the basic problems we have now is that, in my judgment, if you do not have a minimum wage that keeps up, obviously, that is going to be a stress on the whole family.

Sometimes, when we think of a Sandwich Generation, we think of one generation in the middle in between two others.

I will do my best, but when you are caught between Sister and psychiatry----Senator Casey

There needs to be more education in what is out there for the Sandwich Generation.

In a world where sometimes we measure it by other metrics--fame, fortune, and other measurements--that is a good description of what they are up against.

I believe if there was some way that they could have flexibility in the hours that they work.

Not necessarily a resource toward which you can turn.

Well, even as we analyze the financial impact, the other ways we measure, or the other ways we assess this are almost incalculable.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of our clients who find themselves caught in the middle.

A resource of services or help you can get to provide some relief.

There is an agreement that is binding.

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