Robert P. Casey, Jr.: “This investment is about services. It is also about turning poverty jobs into family supporting jobs.”

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

This government has not helped them on the issue of health care.

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.

This hearing today is one example of where the Federal Government can respond positively and constructively to the reality that families face in terms of their income instability.