Robert P. Casey, Jr.: “We need a national nursing home careers recruitment campaign that spans not just registered nurses and clinicians.”

Wages need to be increased so that they are both livable and competitive.

This investment is about services. It is also about turning poverty jobs into family supporting jobs.

It is time we make the smart economic choice for the country--to help our families, to invest in our families, to invest in caregivers--and strengthen this workforce by making a generational investment in home care services.

We will need millions of new direct care workers in a few years given our aging population.